Woodlands, West Meon

It is a scattered settlement situated in the North of the parish, and contains various historic properties, including Punsholt Farm, the final resting place of Dom Sigebert Buckley, or the Last Monk of Westminster.

Punsholt Farm, to the north, is a predominantly 17th century farmhouse, and stands on or near the site of the former chapel of St Mary the Virgin, notable for being the final resting place of Dom Sigebert Buckley, a recusant, who died in 1610.

In a Charter from 932, several place names and features are recorded at Woodlands, including: “Flax Lea, Herdsman’s Tree, Dyke, Small Wood”.

The Woodlands Mission Chapel was built at a prominent position on a crossroads, for the “convenience of the inhabitants residing at a distance from the parish church” at West Meon.

Pursers, a country house overlooking Woodlands, is a former farmhouse turned mansion (since subdivided into three separate freehold properties), which was heavily altered in the early 1900’s with works by Percy Richard Morley Horder.