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	Amport House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Amport House, currently the British Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre (AFCC), is a manor house at Grid reference SU296440 near Andover, Hampshire.
		The current house was built near the village of Amport in 1857 by the Marquis of Winchester and replaced two earlier houses built on the site.
		During World War II the house was taken over and used as the headquarters of Royal Air Force Maintenance Command.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Amport_House (175 words)

	Amport Village Design Statement - Nov 1999
		Amport is a straggling village centred around its village green, adjacent to its school and to the Pillhill Brook, all of which are much valued assets to the village and its inhabitants.
		Other special considerations for the villages are the Hawk Conservancy, Amport House, the disused watercress beds, which are about to be converted into a trout fishing lake and stock ponds, the village school, the village church and the village inn, with its own green facing up the valley of the brook towards Monxton.
		Amport Village school has a catchment area far beyond the village of Amport and is much acclaimed for its educational excellence and its strong musical tradition.
	www.amportvillage.co.uk /VDS/orig_village_design_stat.htm (2072 words)

	Amport Village Design Statement Frame
		Amport is a scattered parish with an irregular boundary.
		Amport Green, in the centre of the village, is a focal point.
		The Brook is central to and in the centre of the village.
	www.amportvillage.co.uk /VDS/vds_draft4_frame.htm (4887 words)

	Amport House
		As part of the armed forces rationalisation the building services were replaced/upgraded including the provision of en-suite bathrooms in each bedroom together with the installation of a lift and new fire escapes.
		The extension to the existing building was two storey housing bedrooms, offices and a chapel.
		This element of the project was particularly sensitive as it formed the background to the knot garden.
	www.wyg.com /5projects/defence/05.htm (121 words)

	Wessex Walks
		There is parking at The Amport Inn provided you are using the pub, although there is a parking area about 3 mile further along the road at one end of the large village green by the red telephone box.
		Continue past buildings associated with Amport House, the local church plus the walls of several very large properties and try to sort out which wall goes with which large garden.
		The main entrance to Amport House is easy to identify, however, with its 15 ft high gates and gate lodge.
	www.nqsouthern.com /digitalpublication/digitalpublications/index.cfm?dpid=133§ion_id=1142 (865 words)

	House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 23 Jan 2003 (pt 6)
		The governing bodies for football, cricket, tennis and rugby union have been given indicative allocations of £9.3 million each over the three years and 11 other governing bodies will be able to submit bids for awards from a £20 million fund over the three years.
		To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what the (a) infrastructure and (b) training costs of Amport House were in each of the last five financial years.
		To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many conferences were held for chaplains at Amport House in each of the last five financial years.
	www.publications.parliament.uk /pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030123/text/30123w06.htm (1245 words)

	Amport, Hampshire
		Amport, a parish in Hants, 1 1/2 mile from Weyhill and 4 1/2 miles from Andover stations on the L. and S.W.R. It includes the tithings of Sarson and East Cholderton.
		The manor belongs to the Marquis of Winchester, and has descended to him from the Norman house of De Port, the common ancestors of the Paulets and the St Johns.
		Amport House, the seat of the Marquis, built in 1857, in the Tudor style, after designs by Mr Burns, stands in a pleasant undulating park much marked with single trees.
	www.uk-genealogy.org.uk /england/Hampshire/places/Amport.html (158 words)

	History of Grateley
		Park House was an extra parochial Inn near the borders of Wiltshire at the crossroads of the Marlborough to Salisbury and Amesbury to Andover roads 9 miles West of Andover.
		Amport House was built about this time, replacing the ancient mansion and on a better site.
		Wallop House, the seat of Rev. Walter Blunt, M.A., was a neat mansion with pleasant grounds.
	www.grateley.com /hist_pt8.htm (1523 words)

	Sir George Young
		Amport's name derives from a grant of land by William the Conqueror to Hugh de Port, the "Am" part coming from the Celtic word of a stream or brook.
		Amport House (pictured here), was built in 1857 by the 14th Marquis of Winchester, used during the war as the headquarters of the Royal Air Force Maintenance Command and eventually becaome home to the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre.
		East Cholderton, Amport and Monxton are linked by the Pill Hill Brook, a tributary of the Anton and then the Test, noted for its dry fly fishing.
	www.sirgeorgeyoung.org.uk /places.cfm?placesid=18 (412 words)

	More About the Royal Air Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Amport House, the Armed Forces Chaplain Centre, was inaugurated on the 1 April 1996 to provide religious and welfare support and training for uniformed personnel of all three services.
		Originally the RAF Chaplain's School, the School moved to Amport House in 1962, having first been based at Dowdswell Court in Cheltenham.
		In addition it houses the Joint Arms Control and Inspection Group (JACIG), HQ Provost & Security Services (RAF), including the newly-formed Tactical Provost Wing, the RAF Centre for Aviation Medicine (CAM) and No 616 Volunteer Gliding School which operates Vigilant T1 motor gliders.
	www.twentysquadron.co.uk /theraf-j.html (776 words)

	Army Widows Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		The speaker on Friday evening is Lindsay Nicholson Editor of Good House Keeping Magazine and author of ‘Living on the Seabed’ her personal account of her experience of grief after losing both her husband and daughter to leukaemia.
		We met for our second weekend meeting at Amport House on 20-22nd May. There was a mixture of those who attended last year and those who have been widowed very recently.
		The weekend provides a chance to be waited on and to meet other ladies, who have been through similar circumstances so we are able to speak freely, learn from each other and from the padres and Army representatives that were on hand.
	www.armywidows.org.uk /news.html (416 words)

	History of Grateley
		The housing was generally described as cottage, private house and farm.
		Manor Farm House of 530 acres was farmed by Charles Drew (47) employing 9 Labourers, 7 boys and 5 women.
		The Parish House was occupied by Samuel Miles (33), his wife Eliza,and children Sarah, Tom and Charles 5,3 and 1 respectively and a stepson John Brickwood an agricultural labourer.
	www.grateley.com /hist_pt9.htm (2533 words)

	New Page 6
		Personal awareness courses for cadets are run at the RAF Chaplains' School, Amport House, Andover, Hampshire.
		There are no medical staff at Amport House and cadets who require daily medical treatment are not to attend or be nominated to attend.
		Also, Corps adults attend for supervisory duties and to assist the Amport House staff in all aspects of the course including full participation in discussion and studies.
	website.lineone.net /~dorsetwilts_atc/LeadershipCourses.htm (1023 words)

	Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre - The Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre - Amport House
		Deep in the Hampshire Countryside lies one of the Ministry of Defence's finest assets: Amport House - home of the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre (AFCC).
		Whatever the time of year, the house and magnificent park and gardens offer a peaceful setting for the work that takes place at the AFCC.
		As a Chaplaincy Centre, Amport House can offer a unique atmosphere where people of any rank and background can work, dine, learn and relax together in a private and secure location.
	www.da.mod.uk /AFCC (277 words)

	Miscellaneous
		This extraordinary item, which takes the form of a mythical sea-creature surrounded by very detailed crustacea, was among the collection of items commissioned by Mrs Fish for the Admiralty in order to commemorate the death of Nelson.
		The "Fish" collection included many extraordinary pieces of furniture, all distinguished by their inclusion into the design of mythical sea creatures and was in use in Admiralty House, Whitehall for many years.
		This painting was part of a large restoration project undertaken on eight extraordinary bird paintings that hang in Amport House.
	www.art.mod.uk /picture_pages/miscellaneous.htm (631 words)

	St George's News, June 2005 edition
		This attractive village, full of thatched cottages and redolent of Victorian times, nevertheless is only a few miles south of the busy A303 and the town of Andover.
		The fourteenth century church, built between 1320-30 is surrounded by green lawns and lies close to Amport House former home of the Marquess of Winchester and the Paulet family.
		In the south transept at the side of the belfry tower is a fine sculptured memorial to Augustus John Henry Beaumont Paulet the 15th Marquess of Winchester.
	www.stgeorgesnews.org /2005/05f02.htm (472 words)

	The Royal Air Force - Stations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Other roles of the stations in this section are as diverse as the maintenance of satellite communications at RAF Oakhanger to safeguarding the health of serving personnel at the Centre of Aviation Medicine, RAF Henlow.
		In addition it houses the Joint Arms Control and Inspection Group (JACIG), HQ Provost Marshal (RAF), Tactical Provost Wing, the RAF Centre for Aviation Medicine (CAM) and No 616 Volunteer Gliding School, which operates Vigilant T1 motor gliders.
		The shared facilities at Atlantic House, Prestwick enhance the working relationships between civil and military controllers ensuring the increasingly busy skies of Northern Britain and its surrounding waters remain safe for all airspace users.
	www.raf.mod.uk /stations/gen_base.html (2093 words)

	Museum of Garden History Gertrude Jekyll room
		Her work with Lutyens consisted mainly of country houses and gardens in which they elaborated ideas developed from vernacular art and materials matched with plants, beautifully orchestrated in colour and texture.
		The Museum houses an important collection of Jekyll artefacts and copies of her garden plans/records Goddards, Abinger Common, Dorking, Surrey (The Landmark Trust - open by appointment: 01306 730 871) A Lutyens house from 1898 and Jekyll assisted with the garden structure and planting - most of which has been restored authentically.
		The Manor House, Upton Grey, Basingstoke, Hampshire (01256 862 827) Fine example of a domestic-scale Jekyll garden lovingly restored to her 1908 plans by the owner Mrs Ros Wallinger since 1986.
	www.compulink.co.uk /~museumgh/jekyll.htm (1430 words)

	Amport Parish Council Minutes - Feb 2004
		It was agreed that 3 prizes be funded, Maurice Hardy proposed a Sunday lunch for 2 at the Amport Inn.
		Their Trust Deeds state that "the hall is for the use of Monxton residents and the surrounding areas" Sarah Hammer pointed out that 37% of Amport's residents (those living north of the A303) were not interested or in favour of a change.
		Despite the general feeling of the members, the Chairman requested the decision be delayed until we had a full council to give all members an opportunity to discuss the proposal.
	www.amport.org.uk /pc_minutes/pc_minutes_0402.htm (1104 words)

	UK Cold War:RAF Bases
		Amport house is the home of the armed Forces Chaplain centre, the centre was opened on the 1st April 1996.
		There has been a military presence at Amport House since 1962 when the original service (the RAF's Chaplin's school moved there from Dowdswell Court in Cheltenham).
		Amport House was also the Second World Head Quarters of maintenance command.
	www.ukcoldwar.org.uk /rafbases.htm (3918 words)

	The Cornelius Trust
		Due to the history of the house and the life tenancies that accompany it that legal 'hoops' are proving very difficult.
		Badger House in Shropshire became the single purpose of the Trust from 1994.
		In 2005, Badger House was sold when it was no longer fulfilling the primary purpose directed towards Christians in the military.
	www.thecorneliustrust.org (676 words)

	proud2serve.net :: View topic - Royal Navy Conference For Gay Men and Women - 27/28 Jan 06
		Amport House is a beautiful old country house owned by the Armed Forces, with extensive conference, hotel and social facilities.
		This RNTM announces a conference for Royal Navy gay and lesbian personnel (Junior/Senior Rates and Officers) at Amport House on Fri 28 and Sat 29 Oct 05.
		The purpose of the 2-day event is to update personnel on developments in the RN diversity programme, to participate in presentations and workshops, and to provide an enjoyable social networking opportunity for personnel and their partners.
	www.proud2serve.net /public/viewtopic.php?t=74 (1634 words)

	web4work virtual office
		Ancient Mariners, as our ex-serving members are affectionately known, have their own get-togethers in different areas and a week on the Norfolk Broads.
		Summer Holidays - at Rora House Christian Centre on the edge of the Dartmoor national park in Devon.
		Amport House, the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre, is the venue for our spring and autumn Fellowship Weekend Conferences.
	www.iflweb.co.uk /ncf/pages/pv.asp?p=ncf12 (307 words)

	23 Jan 2003: Written answers (TheyWorkForYou.com)
		To ask the Secretary of State for Defence (1) how many chaplains have attended each conference at Amport House in each of the last five financial years; (2) how many personnel were employed at...
		To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, who owns the Scotland Office headquarters at Dover House in Whitehall, what her latest estimate is of the total value of this building; and what her...
		To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland when and by whom Dover House, Whitehall, was valued for the purposes of the National Asset Register; what the latest valuation is; and if she will make a...
	www.theyworkforyou.com /wrans/?d=2003-01-23 (7876 words)

	AMPORT HOUSE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
		Here is our current member listing for AMPORT HOUSE RAF This website is one of the largest resources for ex forces personnel, veterans, comrades and colleagues on the net and aims to help you find out about old friends or family who served in AMPORT HOUSE RAF.
		Ian McLaren served in AMPORT HOUSE RAF between 1966 and 1966
		BERNARD JOHN RUMBOLD served in AMPORT HOUSE RAF between 1984 and 1986
	www.comradesandcolleagues.com /ROYAL_AIR_FORCE/AMPORT_HOUSE_RAF.asp (166 words)

	Ser No
		To be held in the Chapel, Amport House.
		There are two choices here, leave the car in the lane and walk up to Amport House or drive to the house and park in the Amport House car park.
		To be held in a room at Amport House.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /ag.frost/agbtowers.htm (156 words)

	Village History
		The present Amport House was built in 1857 and replaced two earlier houses built on the same site.
		After use by the Royal Air Force during World War II, it was purchased in 1957 by the Ministry of Defence and is now the home of the Armed Services Chaplaincy Centre.
		More recently, the Wiltshire Cholderton became known as West Cholderton, but this distinction was soon dropped so we are left with the present, typically English, muddle of lost lorries and late lunch guests.
	www.amport.org.uk /history.htm (501 words)

	Order Book Part 1
		Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many conferences were held for chaplains at Amport House in each of the last five financial years.
		Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the (a) infrastructure and (b) training costs of Amport House were in each of the last five financial years.
		Sandra Gidley (Romsey): To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many personnel were employed at Amport House in each of the last five financial years, broken down by (a) service personnel, (b) civilians and (c) rank and grade.
	www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk /pa/cm200203/cmordbk1/30121w01.htm (3349 words)

	Courses
		At the end of the course you will be presented with an assessment of your course and, if you have passed, a certificate and badge.
		Amport House and Caronvale House each run self-awareness courses throughout the year.
		These are designed to develop your confidence and therefore enable you to become a better leader.
	www.2175atc.co.uk /courses.html (193 words)

	Attractions, events and Days out in the South East - Go Guide
		Beaulieu: National Motor Museum The 16th century house is worth seeing just for it's picturesque location along side the River Beaulieu.
		House is open for tours daily from 2-5pm and admission is free.
		The Museum of Army Chaplaincy houses the archives and historical relics of RAChD and it's chaplains, and unlike most military museums does not include any weapons or ammunition, since the chaplains are non-combatant and their work is to sustain not destroy.
	www.getoutguide.co.uk /uklinks/southeast.htm (395 words)

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