Place Name Petersfield is a market town in East Hampshire, founded in the 1100s by William Fitz Robert, Earl of…
Place Name Minstead is in the New Forest; the village’s name is thought to derive from the Old English word…
Place Name Norley is a farm, woodland and hamlet (named Norleywood rather than Norley) in the New Forest near the…
Place Name Takes its name from small village in the Test Valley, Hampshire. According to the Basingstoke and Deane Conservation…
Place Name Kingsclere, between Newbury and Basingstoke, was first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of AD872 as Cynig’s Clere, meaning…
Place Name Ibsley is a small hamlet in the New Forest, with the surrounding fertile lands supporting local agriculture for…
Place Name Horndean, near the South Downs, lies, like the Alton Estate itself, on the old London to Portsmouth road.…
Place Name Holybourne is a village on the outskirts of Alton. Its name is thought to derive from Haligburna, meaning…
Place Name So named after High Cross, a small hamlet located near Froxfield and Petersfield, in Hampshire. Many of its…
Place Name Takes its name from a coastal suburb of Christchurch now in Dorset but historically part of Hampshire. Its…