Ecchinswell

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Ecchinswell
Hampshire

Ecchinswell Church
Location
Grid reference: SU500597
Location: 51°20’1"N, 1°17’2"W
Data
Post town: Newbury
Postcode: RG20
Local Government
Council: Basingstoke and Deane

Ecchinswell is a village in the north of Hampshire, sitting amongst the Hampshire Downs.

Geography

Just south of Ecchinswell is Watership Down, a broad green hill which was the setting of the novel of the same name by Richard Adams. Ladle Hill on Great Litchfield Down, also stands to the south. Part of the hill, covering 25½ acres. is a biological 'site of special scientific interest', and it has a partially completed Iron Age hill fort on its summit.

The surrounding area is rich in Iron Age tumuli, enclosures, lynchets and field systems. Ladle Hill and Watership Down are easily accessed from the Wayfarer's Walk cross-county footpath that passes through the parish.

In literature

Nuthanger Farm at Ecchinswell features extensively in the Richard Adams book Watership Down.

Outside links

("Wikimedia Commons" has material
about Ecchinswell)

References