Grateley
| Grateley | |
| Hampshire | |
|---|---|
 The Plough Inn | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU277419 |
| Location: | 51°10’32"N, 1°36’16"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 645 (2011) |
| Post town: | Andover |
| Postcode: | SP11 |
| Dialling code: | 01264 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Test Valley |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North West Hampshire |
Grateley is a village and civil parish in the north-west of Hampshire. The village is divided into two distinct settlements, three-quarters of a mile apart: the old village and a newer settlement built around the railway station on the West of England Main Line.[1]
The name is derived from the Old English great leah, meaning 'great meadow or clearing'.[2]
A hamlet named Palestine adjoins the railway station settlement, towards Over Wallop. To the north of Grateley is a prehistoric hill fort, Quarley Hill.
The parish covers 1,551 acres with 616 people living in 250 dwellings. The village has one pub, a thirteenth-century church dedicated to St Leonard, a primary school, a school for children with Asperger syndrome, a railway station, a small business park, a golf driving range, and is surrounded by farmland with ancient footpaths and droveways.
History
King Æthelstan issued his first official law code in Grateley in about 930.[3] Recorded in the early 12th century Quadripartitus text,[4] which referred to a ‘great assembly at Grateley’ (magna synodo apud Greateleyam). The legislative assembly and construct of the Grateley law code acted as a manifestation of the peripatetic nature of Anglo-Saxon kingship.[5]
In the 20th century Grateley was one of many ammunition dumps during the World Wars.[6]
The economic history of Grateley is agricultural, but less than 10% of the village population now rely upon agriculture as an occupation.
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References
- ↑ "Introduction". Grateley Parish Council. http://www.grateley.org/introduction.html.
- ↑
- 'Place-Names of Hampshire
- ↑ Lavelle, Ryan (2005). "Why Grateley? Reflections on Anglo-Saxon Kingship in a Hampshire Landscape". Hampshire Studies: Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 60: 154–69. http://www.ryanlavelle.net/Lavelle-WhyGrateley.pdf.
- ↑ name="foo" Lavelle, Ryan (2005). "Why Grateley? Reflections on Anglo-Saxon Kingship in a Hampshire Landscape". Hampshire Studies: Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 60: 154–69. http://www.ryanlavelle.net/Lavelle-WhyGrateley.pdf.
- ↑ Lavelle, Ryan (2005). "Why Grateley? Reflections on Anglo-Saxon Kingship in a Hampshire Landscape". Hampshire Studies: Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society 60: 154–69. http://www.ryanlavelle.net/Lavelle-WhyGrateley.pdf.
- ↑ "History - Part twelve". Grateley Parish Council. http://www.grateley.org/part-twelve.html. "Later, Grateley, like many areas within reach of the south coast ports, became a munitions store for part of the invasion force involved in Operation Overlord."