Herriard
| Herriard | |
| Hampshire | |
|---|---|
 Herriard Church | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU637523 |
| Location: | 51°12’34"N, 1°3’7"W |
| Data | |
| Population: | 253 (2011) |
| Post town: | Basingstoke |
| Postcode: | RG25 |
| Dialling code: | 01256 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Basingstoke and Deane |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
North East Hampshire |
| Website: | Herriard parish council |
Herriard is a village in the north of Hampshire. Its nearest town is Basingstoke, which is four andf a half mile to the north, and mercifully refrains from swallowing the pretty villages this far out. The village is mainly on the A339 road (whiuch runs between Alton, and Basingstoke. The 2001 Census recorded a population of 247, increasing marginally to 251 at the 2011 Census. It was formerly served by the now-disused Herriard railway station on the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway.
The wider parish also contains the village of Southrope, and the hamlet of Nashes Green. It borders the Hampshire parishes of Winslade to the north, Tunworth to the north-east, Weston Patrick to the east, Lasham to the south and Ellisfield to the west.
Church
St. Mary's Church in Herriard was built by Sir Richard de Herriard around 1200. There was a major refurbishment and the western tower was added in 1878 for Francis Jervoise.
George Puttenham
George Puttenham, the Elizabethan poet and author of The Arte of English Poesie (1589), lived at Herriard House which was his wife's inheritance.
Puttenham gained an evil reputation and much of the information known about his later personal life stems from court records of the dissolution of his marriage and of his attempt to get out of debt by wresting control of Sherfield House from his niece and her husband. These papers though not necessarily reliable accounts, portray Puttenham as a compulsive adulterer, a serial rapist and a wife-beater.[1] He appears to have had at least one child with his maidservants. One he took to Flanders and abandoned.[1] One of the more lascivious stories asserts that when Puttenham was forty-three, he also had his servant kidnap a 17-year-old girl in London and bring her to his farm at Upton Grey near Sherfield, where he raped her and kept her locked up for three years.[1]
When two Royal officials came to arrest him, he had his servants tie them up in Herriard churchyard, where he beat them about the head with a foot whipping cane.[1]
About the vilage
Herriard House was a Queen Anne mansion demolished in the 1960s. It was the home of the Jervoise family.
Herriard is home to a number of businesses, such as AVS Fencing Supplies (formerly the Herriard Sawmills site), mixing console manufacturer Audient, and medical communications consultancy Strategen.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Herriard) |
Stained glass windows in St Mary's Church: Stained Glass Records
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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. http://www.britannica.com/bps/additionalcontent/18/32819294/George-Puttenhams-Lewd-and-Illicit-Career.
