the railway was originally planned to bypass liphook, but the liphook deviation amendment of the act of parliament altered it to its present course. in doing so it bisected the estate of chiltlee manor, a split that exists to this day. 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. after decommissioning it was sold to sainsbury's to form the site of their shop, the millennium centre and several other housing developments. the southern part was sold to mary ann robb in 1869, who built the house of chiltlee place and the surrounding arboretum in 1880. in the 1960s the site was sold to the berg firm of builders for construction of their housing estate.