Nether Wallop
Nether Wallop | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | STOCKBRIDGE | |
Postcode district | SO20 | |
Dialling code | 01264 | |
Police | Hampshire and Isle of Wight | |
Fire | Hampshire and Isle of Wight | |
Ambulance | South Central | |
UK Parliament | ||
Website | The Wallops | |
Nether Wallop is a village and
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.
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.
The church of St Andrew is partly Anglo-Saxon, and fragments of frescoes dating to that period have been discovered.[4]
Further reading
- Richard Sawyer Saint Andrew's Church, Nether Wallop, Hampshire: Its Historical Development, Wall Paintings and Monuments pub. Saint Andrew's Church, Nether Wallop, Parochial Church Council, 1985
References
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 29 December 2016.
- ^ Eilert Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.493.
- ^ "Dorothy Beresford 'Nether Wallop in Hampshire' 1973". Archived from the original on 30 October 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2009.
- ^ Richard Gem and Pamela Tudor-Craig in Anglo-Saxon England
External links
Media related to Nether Wallop at Wikimedia Commons