Hartley Wespall

Village in England

Basingstoke and Deane

Hampshire

Region

South East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townHOOKPostcode districtRG27Dialling code01256Police Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire Hampshire and Isle of Wight Ambulance South Central UK Parliament

North East Hampshire

List of places: UK; England; Hampshire

51°19′06″N 0°59′58″W / 51.318315°N 0.999523°W / 51.318315; -0.999523

Hartley Wespall is a civil parish in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire, England. It is near the larger village of Hook, which lies approximately 2.5 miles (4.1 km) south-west from the hamlet.

St.Mary Church is flint with a Tile hung North Tower. It was essentially reconstructed by Gilbert Scott in 1868–69. It still has, as noted by Pevsner “one tremendous original feature, the early C14 timbers of the West Wall.”^[2] The fourteenth century church is Grade I listed.^[3]

John Keate, headmaster of Eton College from 1809 to 1834, was made rector here in 1824. He is buried in the church.^[4]

References

^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for Nationsl Statistics. Retrieved 19 December 2016.
^ The Buildings of England, Hampshire and The Isle of Wight, Nickolas Pevsner. ISBN 0 14 071032 9
^ Historic England. "Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin (1339496)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 14 May 2020.
^ Mee, Arthur (1967). The King's England, Hampshire with the Isle of Wight. London: Hodder and Stoughton. p. 119.