Weston Colley
| Weston Colley | |
| Hampshire | |
|---|---|
 Rail bridge over Weston Colley | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU496390 |
| Location: | 51°8’53"N, 1°17’31"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Winchester |
| Postcode: | SO21 3 |
| Dialling code: | 01962 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | Winchester |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
Winchester |
Weston Colley is a hamlet of about twenty dwellings, adjacent to (and within the parish of) Micheldever in Hampshire. The nearest large town is Hampshire's county town, Winchester, seven miles south of the hamlet.
History
Within the past thirty years, the landed estate which owned much of Weston Colley has sold (mostly to private owners) its housing portfolio, retaining most of the farmland within and around the hamlet, together with Weston Farm, which is run on a long tenancy. The landed estate is now owned by Zurich Financial Services, which acquired it as part of its buy-out of Eagle Star Insurance - which, in-turn, bought the assets from the estate of J. Arthur Rank - based at near-by Sutton Scotney.
The housing stock mainly dates from the 1930s but there are some centuries' old thatched, oak-timber buildings.
About the village
Tee are no shops here nor, pubs nor a places of worship. Weston Colley does have farms and yards, a photo-artist, a bed-and-breakfast and a small field camping site
For shops and services and a school, residents may head for Sutton Scotney or Micheldever.
At each end of the hamlet is a bridge. The Micheldever end has an elevated railway line over the single-track lane, restricting the height of traffic below. At the Stoke Charity end, the River Dever is crossed by a single-track road bridge, which was rebuilt in the 2000s to safely carry heavy grain lorries to and from the farm.