Upton Grey

Upton Grey
St Mary's church
Upton Grey Upton Grey shown within Hampshire
OS grid reference	SU6986748182
Civil parish	Upton Grey
District	Basingstoke and Deane
Shire county	Hampshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Basingstoke
Postcode district	RG25 2
Dialling code	01256
Police	Hampshire
Fire	Hampshire
Ambulance	South Central
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	North East Hampshire
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Coordinates: 51°13′43″N 1°00′03″W / 51.2286°N 1.0008°W / 51.2286; -1.0008

Upton Grey is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England.

History

Roman times

The village is on the line of an ancient Roman road, the Chichester to Silchester Way.

Norman times

The Grey derives from the years when the village was owned by the de Grey family and was used to differentiate the village from the many other Uptons.

Elizabethan times

The Manor House dates from Elizabethan times when the Matthew family lived there. The famous Elizabethan poet, George Puttenham, lived at Herriard House but also had a farm at Upton Grey. It was there that he kept his seventeen-year-old sex slave whom he had kidnapped in London. Eventually she was released when Puttenham's long suffering wife discovered her existence.^[1]

Buildings

Manor House

Charles Holme purchased several houses and a great deal of the surrounding land in Upton Grey. The Old Manor House, which he rented to tenants for the rest of his life, was in fragile condition. Holme then commissioned a local architect Ernest Newton to refurbish it, keeping many of the original timbers. Today's Edwardian decoration encloses oak rooms, a 16th-century staircase and original roof timbers. Newton's house was finished in 1907. Gertrude Jekyll created a four and a half acre garden around it.

Hoddington House

Hoddington House is a Grade II* Listed mansion built around 1700 by John Limbrey. Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as ‘by far the best house’ in Upton Grey, it is built on the site of a religious house called Edyndon, a monastery affiliated to the Abbey of Beaulieu in the New Forest.^[2] It was the childhood home of George Sclater-Booth, 1st Baron Basing and his brother, the naturalist Philip Sclater.

Governance

The village of Upton Grey is part of the civil parish of Upton Grey,^[3] and is part of the Upton Grey and the Candovers ward of Basingstoke and Deane borough council.^[4] The borough council is a Non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council.

Geography

Upton Grey is near Basingstoke, which lies to the north-west. There are various other villages located in all directions around the village, including:

South Warnborough, to the east
Greywell and Odiham, to the north-east
Herriard, to the south
Tunworth, to the west
Weston Patrick, to the southwest

Village amenities

There are various amenities in the village. These include the Upton Grey Shop and Post Office, the Hoddington Arms public house, St Mary’s Church, a village hall, a duck pond, and a war memorial to the south of the church.

References

↑ May, Stephen W (2008). "George Puttenham's Lewd and Illicit Career". Texas Studies in Literature and Language. University of Texas Press. 50 (2). doi:10.1353/tsl.0.0001.
↑ Property details http://search.knightfrank.com/cho100437
↑ "Hampshire County Council's legal record of public rights of way in Hampshire" (PDF). 2008. Retrieved 26 October 2010.
↑ "Basingstoke and Deane Wards info". 2010. Retrieved 26 October 2010.

External links

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Hampshire Treasures Volume 2 (Basingstoke and Deane) pages 321, 323, 324, 325, 326, 327, and 328
Conservation Area Appraisal: Upton Grey

Towns, villages and hamlets in the Basingstoke and Deane District of Hampshire, England

	Towns	Basingstoke Tadley Whitchurch

	Civil parishes	Ashford Hill with Headley Ashmansworth Baughurst Bramley Burghclere Candovers Chineham Cliddesden Deane Dummer East Woodhay Ecchinswell, Sydmonton and Bishops Green Farleigh Wallop Hannington Herriard Highclere Hurstbourne Priors Kingsclere Laverstoke Litchfield and Woodcott Mapledurwell and Up Nately Monk Sherborne Mortimer West End Newtown North Waltham Nutley Oakley Old Basing and Lychpit Overton Pamber Popham Preston Candover Rooksdown Sherborne St John Sherfield on Loddon Silchester St Mary Bourne Steventon Stratfield Turgis Tunworth Upton Grey Weston Corbett Weston Patrick Winslade Wootton St Lawrence

	Villages and hamlets	Adbury Aldermaston Soke Aldern Bridge Andwell Ashe Ashe Warren Ashford Hill Ashley Warren Axford Axmansford Binley Bishop's Green Bramley Corner Bramley Green Broadmere Brock's Green Brown Candover Charter Alley Chilton Candover Cole Henley Dunley East Oakley Ecchinswell Ellisfield Ewhurst Freefolk Hare Warren Headley Heath End Ibworth Inhurst Litchfield Little London Lower Woodcott Lower Wyke Malshanger Mapledurwell Middle Wyke Nately Scures Newfound Newnham Newtown Common North Oakley North Sydmonton Old Basing Old Burghclere Pamber End Pamber Green Pamber Heath Penwood Plastow Green Quidhampton Ramsdell Southrope Stoke Spanish Green Sydmonton Tufton Warren Up Nately Upper Woodcott Upper Wootton Tufton Turgis Green Wadwick Wells-in-the-Field West Heath Whitnal Whitway Woolton Hill Wolverton Wolverton Common

	Districts of Basingstoke	Brighton Hill Hatch Warren Kempshott Oakridge South Ham Winklebury Worting Viables

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