Upper Wootton

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Upper Wootton
Hampshire

Woodgarston Motte
Location
Grid reference: SU580547
Location: 51°17’18"N, 1°10’9"W
Data
Post town: Tadley
Postcode: RG26
Dialling code: 01256
Local Government
Council: Basingstoke and Deane
Parliamentary
constituency:
Basingstoke

Upper Wootton is a small village in the north of Hampshire. Its nearest town is Tadley, which is on the Berkshire border and five miles north-east of Upper Wootton.

Half a mile north-east of the village is the overgrown ring motte known as Woodgarston Castle, a possible location for the 'Castle of the Wood' recorded as having been stormed by King Stephen in 1147.

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