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Froxfield Green
Froxfield Green (formerly Froxfield) is a village in the civil parish of Froxfield and Privett, in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is north-west of Petersfield, and lies just north of the A272 road. History Earthworks which run north–south and pass along the western edge of the modern village may be an Anglo-Saxon defensive work, or mark a tribal boundary. The remains of a Roman Britain, Roman and Romano-British culture, Romano-British site lie a short distance south-east of the village. Froxfield is not mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book; the area is probably included land at ''Menes'' which later became the large East Meon estate. Although the settlement was documented as Froxfield Green in 1908, Ordnance Survey maps published in 1939 and earlier identified it as Froxfield. Since at least 1960, maps show Froxfield Green. The civil parish in which the village lies was called Froxfield until the 2010s, when the name Froxfield and Privett came into us ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Froxfield And Privett
Froxfield and Privett is a Civil parishes in England, civil parish in East Hampshire, England, about northwest of Petersfield. The settlements in the parish are the villages of Froxfield Green, Privett and High Cross, Hampshire, High Cross, and several hamlets including Bailey Green, Filmore Hill, Stoner Hill and Warren Corner. The population of the parish taken at the 2021 census was 929. Geography The parish is on high ground, rising to over above sea level in the north, and separated from Petersfield by the steep slope of Stoner Hill. It is within the South Downs National Park. The Basing Park estate lies in the north-west of the parish. The western boundary of the parish follows the A32 road, A32 Gosport–Alton road, and in the southwest corner the boundary follows the A272 road, A272 Winchester–Petersfield road. The parish and its predecessors A civil parish named Froxfield was created in the 19th century, and had an area (before it was enlarged to include Privett) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria County History
The Victoria History of the Counties of England, commonly known as the Victoria County History (VCH), is an English history project which began in 1899 with the aim of creating an encyclopaedic history of each of the historic counties of England, and was dedicated to Queen Victoria. In 2012 the project was rededicated to Queen Elizabeth II in celebration of her Diamond Jubilee year. Since 1933 the project has been coordinated by the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London. History The history of the VCH falls into three main phases, defined by different funding regimes: an early phase, 1899–1914, when the project was conceived as a commercial enterprise, and progress was rapid; a second more desultory phase, 1914–1947, when relatively little progress was made; and the third phase beginning in 1947, when, under the auspices of the Institute of Historical Research, a high academic standard was set, and progress has been slow but reasonably steady. These ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privett
Privett is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Froxfield and Privett, in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is northwest of Petersfield, Hampshire, Petersfield, just off the A272 road. Its principal feature is Holy Trinity Church, Privett, Holy Trinity Church, designed by Arthur Blomfield and built at the expense of local landowner, businessman and Member of parliament, M.P. William Nicholson (distiller), William Nicholson. Nicholson was also responsible for building in the village a number of dwellings for workers on his Basing Park estate. In 1931 the parish had a population of 172. History A place called ''Pryfetesflōd'' (Privett's River), located in the Weald, is mentioned in the 755 AD entry of the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' (the story of Cynewulf of Wessex, Cynewulf and Cyneheard), as the place where Sigeberht of Wessex, previously a ruler of Hampshire, was driven off to. The village was known as Pryvet in the 14th century and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steep, Hampshire
Steep is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Petersfield, which lies south of the village, just off the A3 road. The nearest railway station is Petersfield railway station, Petersfield, at south of the village. It has two public houses, The Harrow, Steep, The Harrow and the Cricketers Inn, with the former being an 18th-century listed building, Grade II listed building. According to the 2011 United Kingdom census, 2011 census, it had a population of 1,391. Iron Age and Roman Empire, Roman remains have been found in the area. Steep formerly included two detached Counties (Detached Parts) Act 1844, exclaves, the larger called South Ambersham, Ambersham, which lay deep inside West Sussex, Sussex. These were two of the three detached portions of Hampshire in Sussex, and were annexed to that county when a new law came into effect in 1844. The church of All Saints was built around 1125. From medieval times, Steep was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Early English (architecture)
English Gothic is an architectural style that flourished from the late 12th until the mid-17th century. The style was most prominently used in the construction of cathedrals and churches. Gothic architecture's defining features are pointed arches, rib vaults, buttresses, and extensive use of stained glass. Combined, these features allowed the creation of buildings of unprecedented height and grandeur, filled with light from large stained glass windows. Important examples include Westminster Abbey, Canterbury Cathedral and Salisbury Cathedral. The Gothic style endured in England much longer than in Continental Europe. The Gothic style was introduced from France, where the various elements had first been used together within a single building at the choir of the Abbey of Saint-Denis north of Paris, completed in 1144. The earliest large-scale applications of Gothic architecture in England were Canterbury Cathedral and Westminster Abbey. Many features of Gothic architecture had e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petersfield Railway Station
Petersfield railway station serves the market town of Petersfield, Hampshire, England. It is on the Portsmouth Direct line, down the line from via Woking. The station The station has two tracks, and two platforms, although in the past had a third platform branching into the coal yard situated adjacent to the station and a fourth platform on the north side of the level crossing serving the branch to Midhurst closed in 1955. The main buildings date back to the opening of the line in 1859 and are of a "town" type, larger than other wayside stations on the route but identical to Godalming. The signal box, situated by the level crossing at the north-east end of the station, is an LSWR Type 3a box and a Grade II listed building. Services All services at Petersfield are operated by South Western Railway using and EMUs Emus may refer to: * Emu The emu (; ''Dromaius novaehollandiae'') is a species of flightless bird endemism, endemic to Australia, where it is the Tallest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
High Cross, Hampshire
High Cross is a village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It lies in Froxfield and Privett parish, about north-west of Petersfield, north of the A272 road. The nearest railway station is 2.7 miles (4.3 km) south of the village, at Petersfield Petersfield is a market town and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is north of Portsmouth. The town has its own Petersfield railway station, railway station on the Portsmouth Direct line, the mainline rai .... St Peter's church was built in 1862. Today the parish is part of the Steep and Froxfield with Privett benefice, a group of four rural parishes. Amenities in the village include Froxfield village hall, Froxfield pre-school and primary school, and a shop with post office. References External links Villages in Hampshire {{Hampshire-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Church Of England
The Church of England (C of E) is the State religion#State churches, established List of Christian denominations, Christian church in England and the Crown Dependencies. It is the mother church of the Anglicanism, Anglican Christian tradition, tradition, with foundational doctrines being contained in the ''Thirty-nine Articles'' and ''The Books of Homilies''. The Church traces its history to the Christian hierarchy recorded as existing in the Roman Britain, Roman province of Britain by the 3rd century and to the 6th-century Gregorian mission to Kingdom of Kent, Kent led by Augustine of Canterbury. Its members are called ''Anglicans''. In 1534, the Church of England renounced the authority of the Papacy under the direction of Henry VIII, beginning the English Reformation. The guiding theologian that shaped Anglican doctrine was the Reformer Thomas Cranmer, who developed the Church of England's liturgical text, the ''Book of Common Prayer''. Papal authority was Second Statute of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Vision Of Britain Through Time
The Great Britain Historical GIS (or GBHGIS) is a spatially enabled database that documents and visualises the changing human geography of the British Isles, although is primarily focussed on the subdivisions of the United Kingdom mainly over the 200 years since the first census in 1801. The project is currently based at the University of Portsmouth, and is the provider of the website ''A Vision of Britain through Time''. NB: A "GIS" is a geographic information system, which combines map information with statistical data to produce a visual picture of the iterations or popularity of a particular set of statistics, overlaid on a map of the geographic area of interest. Original GB Historical GIS (1994–99) The first version of the GB Historical GIS was developed at Queen Mary, University of London between 1994 and 1999, although it was originally conceived simply as a mapping extension to the existing Labour Markets Database (LMDB). The system included digital boundaries for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Meon
East Meon is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is west of Petersfield. The village is located in the Meon Valley approximately north of Portsmouth and southwest of London, on the headwaters of the River Meon. The parish has an area of . The boundaries of the present parish of East Meon date back to 1894. About a mile to the west rises the prominent hill of Henwood Down (201 m). The South Downs Way passes over the southern spur of the hill.Ordnance Survey 1:50,000 ''Landranger'' series. Petersfield railway station is the nearest station, east of the village. History There are Bronze Age burial barrows within the parish of East Meon which date back to around 2000 BC. There is also an Iron Age fort, situated just outside the parish boundaries on Old Winchester Hill, constructed approximately 500 years before the Ancient Rome, Romans invaded Britain. There is also evidence of Roman occupation in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Hampshire
East Hampshire is a local government district in Hampshire, England. Its council is based in the town of Petersfield, although the largest town is Alton. The district also contains the town of Bordon along with many villages and surrounding rural areas. Parts of the district lie within the South Downs National Park. The neighbouring districts are Havant, Winchester, Basingstoke and Deane, Hart, Waverley and Chichester. History East Hampshire was created on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, covering the area of four former districts which were all abolished at the same time: * Alton Rural District * Alton Urban District * Petersfield Rural District * Petersfield Urban District The district was originally proposed to be called Petersfield. The shadow authority elected in 1973 to oversee the transition to the new system requested a change of name to East Hampshire, which was confirmed by the government on 8 October 1973, before the new district formally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
