East Tytherley

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East Tytherley
Hampshire

Houses in East Tytherley
Location
Grid reference: SU293288
Location: 51°3’28"N, 1°34’57"W
Data
Post town: Salisbury
Postcode: SP5
Dialling code: 01264
Local Government
Council: Test Valley
Parliamentary
constituency:
North West Hampshire

East Tytherley is a small village in Hampshire.

The name Tytherley comes from Old English and means thin or tender wood.[1]

The village was given to Queen Philippa by her husband Edward III in 1335. When the Black Death spread through London she moved her court to the village.

In more recent history, William Fothergill Cooke invented the first commercial electrical telegraph whilst living in the village.

Church

The village church is St Peter’s. It is largely dates from the 13th cenurty with a heavy restoration between 1862 and 1863. A Tower on the north side was completed in 1898[2]

Outside links

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about East Tytherley)

References

  1. Mills, Anthony David: 'A Dictionary of British Place-Names' (Oxford University Press, 2003) ISBN 978-0-19-852758-9
  2. Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Hampshire & The Isle of Wight, 1967 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09606-4