[citation needed] Some people escaped from the manors of Bramshott, Chiltlee and Ludshott to Liphook, an area above the marshes around the River Wey, to evade taxes of their local Lords.

Originally travellers' needs were catered for by stalls, eventually replaced by the half-timbered houses that exist around The Square.

The roads were often unmaintained and unsigned - Samuel Pepys records three journeys by this road in May 1661, April 1662 and August 1668, on the last occasion staying in Lippock: So to coach again, and got to Lippock, late over Hindhead, having an old man, a guide, in the coach with us; but got thither with great fear of being out of our way, it being ten at night.

In the 17th century the Royal Navy considered the road from Petersfield to Portsmouth impassable for heavy goods in winter.

Local tradition has it that Nelson spent his last night in England in Liphook before sailing for the Battle of Trafalgar.

Thomas Brassey, a railway contractor, was granted Act of Parliament to construct a single track in 1853 (doubling was completed on 1 March 1878 [7]).

The first train arrived in Liphook on 24 January 1859, but a dispute between the LSWR and the LBSCR meant full service was not initiated until 7 May.

The northern part remained as fields and the village cricket pitch, until its requisition to become the British Army's Ordnance Supply Unit in 1939.

The southern part was sold to Mary Anne Robb in 1869, who built the house of Chiltlee Place and the surrounding arboretum in 1880.

A few wealthy people however saw the potential of commuter travel, notably Mary Ann Robb and London solicitor William Thomas Longbourn, who bought Foley Manor in 1859.

He later sold it to William Barrington Tristram, a former member of the Bombay Council who built the house's Victorian extension.

Recent roads in Liphook have been given Canadian place names to commemorate the armed forces of that country which trained in this area during the World Wars.

The cemetery of St Mary's church in Bramshott has a section of Canadian graves, including those of both war dead and victims of the influenza outbreak of 1918.

[14] During the hot summer of 1983, Liphook made the news as the hottest spot (33.7C) in the United Kingdom on three days in July.

Liphook and Ripsley Cricket Club play on a ground to the southwest of the village just over the border in West Sussex.

The club reached the National Village Cup final in 2018, but were beaten at Lord's by Folkton and Flixton by 72 runs.