Froxfield Green
| Froxfield Green | |
| Hampshire | |
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 The Trooper Inn, Froxfield Green | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU703256 |
| Location: | 51°1’31"N, -0°59’54"W |
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| Local Government | |
| Council: | East Hampshire |
Froxfield Green is a small village in Hampshire, three miles west of Petersfield and just north of the A272 road.
The village is in a rural area of many hamlets, within the 'East Hampshire Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty' and entirely within South Downs National Park. It sits on high ground overlooking the East Hampshire Hangers, part of the Hampshire Downs.
The two highest pubs in Hampshire are 'The White Horse', more commonly known as 'The Pub With No Name' and 'The Trooper Inn': at the beginning of the First World War is said that The Trooper was used as a recruiting centre, , although it is not known whether this was the source of the Trooper name.
History and heritage
Evidence of ancient settlement in Froxfield includes traces of a Romans encampment in the south of the parish. Fragments of an earthwork running across the Parish are supposed to have formed part of the boundary between the ancient kingdoms of Wessex and Sussex.
The village has two churches, St Peter on the Green, built in 1884 on the site of the original 12th century church and St Peter's, High Cross was built in 1862 after the original Norman parish church at Froxfield Green was demolished, it contains the Norman pillars from the previous church. In another hamlet, Privett, to the north-west has its own church, Holy Trinity Church, now declared redundant but still a Grade II* listed building in the ecclesiastical parish of Froxfield.
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