Otterbourne
| Otterbourne | |
| Hampshire | |
|---|---|
 ST Matthew, Otterbourne | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU468226 |
| Location: | 51°0’4"N, 1°20’1"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 1,539 (2011) |
| Post town: | Winchester |
| Postcode: | SO50 |
| Dialling code: | 01962 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Winchester |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Winchester |
| Website: | Otterbourne Parish Council |
Otterbourne is a village in Hampshire, about four miles south of Winchester and eight miles north of Southampton. The 2011 census recorded a population of 1,539, in 626 dwellings.
The village has three public houses in the village: the White Horse Inn, the Otter, and the Old Forge. There is also a school, a post office and village shop. Before the 21st century, the post office and village shop were located opposite Cranbourne Drive at the bottom of Otterbourne Hill, but the local garage started competing and forced closure, and a new shop later opened up the hill.
History
The village of Otterbourne, on the stream known as the Otter Bourne, stands on the old Roman road between Venta Belgarum (Winchester) and Clausentum (Southampton). It appears in the Domesday Book as Otrebourne.
The scientist Sir Isaac Newton lodged at Cranbury House in his twilight years, and John Keble, a leader of the Oxford Movement, settled down as vicar of the parish church, St Matthew's, around 1838.>
At that time, Otterbourne's novelist Charlotte Mary Yonge (1823–1901) was 15 years old; her writings were influenced by Keble's sermons. In her day, she was a major celebrity, publishing more than 100 novels.
Already by 1840, however, the London to Southampton railway opened (later the South West Main Line), passing by the village. Within half a century, old Otterbourne had been abandoned, and the village moved half a mile east to its present location.
Society
- Otterbourne Brass,[1] performs in Otterbourne Village Hall each Christmas and concerts in and around the surrounding area.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Otterbourne) |
- Otterbourne Parish Council
- Otterbourne Village Hall
- John Keble 's Parishes John Keble's Parishes – A History of Hursley and Otterbourne. (1898) Edited by Charlotte M. Yonge
- Charlotte M. Yonge, Old Times at Otterbourne, 1891
References
- ↑ "Otterbourne Brass". otterbournebrass.org.uk. http://www.otterbournebrass.org.uk/.