East Tytherley

Human settlement in England

Test Valley

Hampshire

Region

South East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townSalisburyPostcode districtSP5Dialling code01264Police Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire Hampshire and Isle of Wight Ambulance South Central UK Parliament

North West Hampshire

List of places: UK; England; Hampshire

51°03′28″N 1°34′57″W / 51.057683°N 1.582593°W / 51.057683; -1.582593

East Tytherley is a small village in Hampshire, England.^[1]^[2]

The name Tytherley comes from Old English and means thin or tender wood.^[3]

The village was given to Queen Philippa by her husband Edward III in 1335. When the Black Death spread through London she moved her court to the village.^{[citation needed]}

The village church is St Peter’s.^[4] It is largely dates from the 13th cenurty with a heavy restoration between 1862 and 1863.^[4] A Tower on the north side was completed in 1898^[4]

In more recent history William Fothergill Cooke invented the first commercial electrical telegraph whilst living in the village.^{[citation needed]}

References

^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 185 Winchester & Basingstoke (Andover & Romsey) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2013. ISBN 9780319228845.
^ "Ordnance Survey: 1:50,000 Scale Gazetteer" (csv (download)). www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Ordnance Survey. 1 January 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2016.
^ Mills, A.D. (2011) [first published 1991]. A Dictionary of British Place Names (First edition revised 2011 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 472. ISBN 9780199609086.
^ ^a ^b ^c O’Brien, Charles; Bailey, Bruce; Pevsner, Nikolaus; Lloyd, David W. (2018). The Buildings of England Hampshire: South. Yale University Press. pp. 250–251. ISBN 9780300225037.