Appleshaw is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

in the

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county of

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial county, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan counties of England, county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English citi ...

. The name Appleshaw is derived from Old English ‘scarga’ - a shaugh or wood; thus Appleshaw may mean ‘apple wood’. It includes the hamlet of Ragged Appleshaw, the ‘ragged’ possibly being a corruption of ‘roe gate’ - the gate of the Royal Deer Forest of Chute. The northern boundary of the parish is the Wiltshire border. This small parish lies on the Wiltshire border and includes the hamlets of

Redenham Redenham is a small village in the civil parish of Appleshaw in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. It is in the civil Parish of Fyfield. Its nearest town is Andover, which lies approximately 4.8 miles (7.7 km) south-east from ...

and Ragged Appleshaw, including part of Redenham Park. Granted the right to two annual fairs in 1658, Appleshaw became a rival to the great Weyhill sheep fair. The ''Salisbury Journal'' in 1801 reported that 15,000 sheep were sold at Appleshaw - a reduction on the previous year's total. W. G. Grace once played cricket here, with his bat made of Wallop willow. In the middle of the street a clock sticks out from a barn wall, placed there to celebrate Queen Victoria's jubilee.

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