The parish covers an area of 1,536 acres (622 ha) and has an average elevation of 600 feet (180 m) above sea level.

[4] Bronze Age remains found in the area include a looped palstave and a cinerary urn.

[4] A Saxon church was formerly in the village; this was rebuilt in the nineteenth century, with flint with Bath stone.

[2] William Mauditt left a son and heir, Warin, a minor, whose custody was assigned by Henry III to his brother Richard, Earl of Cornwall.

[2] Interest in the manor passed down to his son Thomas, in which he granted a sum of land at Shalden to a Knight named Walter Stoner and his freeman, in gratitude for his homage and services.

At that time Sir Nicholas de Boys held the manor of Shalden as a tenant for life.

In 1297 the Earl of Cornwall, in consideration of the services of Sir Nicholas, granted the manor to him and his heirs indefinitely.

Robert died in 1330, and his son Edward succeeded to the manor, but it was held by his widow Margaret until her death in 1347.

Sir Edward de Kendale died in 1373, leaving a widow and a son as his heir for the manor of Shalden.

Her heir was her grandson, but the manor of Shalden passed to John de Kendale, who held it in 1428.

[2] Ownership of the manor was passed on to William Dyer in 1444, who was a trustee of a lord named Robert Lee.

Ownership was then transferred in 1485 to Maud, Anne, Elizabeth, Jane, and Ellen, daughters of John Lee, who had claimed the issues of the manor was under the will of their father, and complained that they had been prevented from enjoying them by Reginald Sandes and Robert Norton, who were also trustees.

Upon his death in 1871, it was finally renounced to his son John Gathorne Wood, who was the last owner of the manor from 1871 to some time after 1912.

[8]Shalden is located in the eastern central part of Hampshire, in South East England, 2.1 miles (3.4 km) northwest of Alton, its nearest town.

[2] The parish contains four individual hamlets; Stancombe, Shalden Green, Pountley and Golden Pot.

The Manor Farmhouse a late-medieval hall house, built with a timber-framed structure that covers two stories, dates from the 16th century, with early 19th-century cladding and 20th-century extensions.