Nether Wallop

Nether Wallop
Thatched cottage
Nether Wallop is located in Hampshire
Nether Wallop
Nether Wallop
Location within Hampshire
Population876 (2011 Census)[1]
OS grid referenceSU2996536570
Civil parish
  • Nether Wallop
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSTOCKBRIDGE
Postcode districtSO20
Dialling code01264
PoliceHampshire and Isle of Wight
FireHampshire and Isle of Wight
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
WebsiteThe Wallops
List of places
UK
England
Hampshire
51°07′39″N 1°34′23″W / 51.127635°N 1.573184°W / 51.127635; -1.573184

Nether Wallop is a village and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England, 3+1⁄2 miles (6 kilometres) northwest of Stockbridge, and seven miles (eleven kilometres) southwest of Andover.

Nether Wallop is the easternmost of the three villages collectively known as The Wallops, the other two being Over Wallop and Middle Wallop. The name "Wallop" derives from the Old English words waella and hop, which taken together roughly mean "the valley of springing water".

The village was the site of the Battle of Guoloph that took place around 440 CE. The element "Wallop" is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Wallope", while Nether Wallop is first attested as "Wollop inferior" c. 1270 in Episcopal Registers.[2]

Nether Wallop contains many old thatched cottages, and has been featured in books and TV programmes as one of the prettiest villages in England.[3] In particular, Dane Cottage in Five Bells Lane was used as Miss Marple's home in the village of St. Mary Mead for the BBC TV adaptations of the Agatha Christie novels. The house and many of the surrounding lanes within the village were used as the setting and are commonly seen throughout many of the Miss Marple films.

Sir Richard Reade (1511–1575), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was a native of Nether Wallop, where his family were Lords of the Manor for several generations.

The conductor Leopold Stokowski died at his home in Nether Wallop on 13 September 1977.

St Andrews Church, Nether Wallop, Hampshire

The church of St Andrew is partly Anglo-Saxon, and fragments of frescoes dating to that period have been discovered.[4]

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
  2. ^ Eilert Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.493.
  3. ^ "Dorothy Beresford 'Nether Wallop in Hampshire' 1973". Archived from the original on 30 October 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2009.
  4. ^ Richard Gem and Pamela Tudor-Craig in Anglo-Saxon England