South Gorley is a

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play. Set in Denmark, the play (the ...

in the

New Forest The New Forest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England, covering southwest Hampshire and southeast Wiltshire. It was proclaimed a royal forest by William the Conqueror, featu ...

National Park of

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Berkshire to the north, Surrey and West Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, ...

, England. It is in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley is a civil parish in the New Forest district, in the west of the county of Hampshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 1,171. The civil parish was formed on 1 April 1979 from "El ...

. Its nearest town is Ringwood, which lies approximately south-west of the hamlet. The hamlet sits on the western boundary of the New Forest National Park, about south of

North Gorley North Gorley is a hamlet in the New Forest National Park of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Fordingbridge, which lies approximately north of the hamlet. Location The hamlet of North Gorley sits on the western boundary of the New Forest ...

. The River Avon lies just to the west.

History

The name Gorley means "triangular wood/clearing".Burgate, Old Hampshire Gazetteer
/ref> In 1086 Osbern the Falconer held the manor of Gorley from the

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.Victoria County History of Hampshire: Fordingbridge
/ref> The part which became South Gorley was for most of its history included in and followed the descent of Ibsley, in particular that part of Ibsley which John atte Bere had owned in the 14th century.Victoria County History of Hampshire: Ibsley
/ref> South Gorley was, unlike North Gorley, in the parish of Ibsley, and it is now part of the

. The old village school of Ibsley, built in 1874 by the Earl of Normanton, was at South Gorley. In 1902 the artist Heywood Sumner acquired a plot land at Cuckoo Hill near South Gorley. He designed and built a house there where he lived from 1904 until his death in 1940 at the age of 87. The house is now a care home.Heywood Sumner House
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