Rotherwick is a village and civil parish in the
Hart district of
Hampshire
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, England.
Extent and layout
It is briefly limited to the east and the west by the Whitewater and the Lyde, both tributaries of the
Loddon. A curved lane, becoming
Reading Road with footways runs approximately on fairly flat terrain from the
nucleated village A nucleated village, or clustered settlement, is one of the main types of settlement pattern. It is one of the terms used by geographers and landscape historians to classify settlements. It is most accurate with regard to planned settlements: its ...
centre to the high street, which is the old
A30 trunk route, of
Hook
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a town/village. Beyond this point is further housing and then
Hook railway station, a frequently served minor stop on the South Western Main Line.
A large minority of the land (about half of which being Rotherwick's Black Wood of about ) is forested and sandy in composition, as with Stratfield Saye remnant forest to the north-west and
Swinley Forest in the near part of East Berkshire, having mixtures of sands, sandstones, occasional peat beds and gravels associated with the
Bagshot Formation.
Amenities
Rotherwick has a large village hall, erected in 1933 through charity of 1931 by an
American couple in memory of their son Charles De Forest.
Its small church with side chapels has a whitewashed interior and many high open
timber roof truss
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es. It is one of three in the ecclesiastical parish of Heckfield with Mattingley and Rotherfield (HMR) and in a benefice shared with St John the Evangelist, Hook, whose rector leads the benefice. It has a side chapel, the Tylney Chapel.
[Whitewater Churches (benefice)]
Weekly notices, detailing repairs to the Tylney Chapel, at Rotherfield church and food bank collections The churches take part in local food bank donations.
[ Its structure dates to the 13th century, with an 18th-century tower. A 2012-installed stained glass window celebrates 300 years of neighbouring Whitewater C of E Primary school.
The Church of England Primary School thus dates to 1712.
Of its population, 42 at the time of the 2011 census were in a communal establishment/hotel; and 256 were aged 30 to 59; 130 were aged 60 or more years.][
Tylney Hall Hotel and Gardens marginally overshooting into the parish of Newnham is studded with trees and formal lawns; it is a large set of ornate buildings and its golf course and most of its grounds absorb the south-west corner of the parish.]
References
External links
Rotherwick village hall website
(Hampshire County Council information page)
* ''Hampshire Treasures'' Volume 3 (Hart and Rushmoor) page
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Villages in Hampshire