Mottisfont

Village in England

Mottisfont

District

Test Valley

Hampshire

Region

South East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townROMSEYPostcode districtSO51Dialling code01794Police Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire Hampshire and Isle of Wight Ambulance South Central UK Parliament

Romsey and Southampton North

List of places: UK; England; Hampshire

51°02′22″N 1°32′14″W / 51.039553°N 1.53711°W / 51.039553; -1.53711

Mottisfont is a village and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England, around 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Romsey. The village is the location of Mottisfont Abbey. Much of the surrounding land, which is part of the Mottisfont Estate, and several other buildings in the village are in the care of the National Trust.

The unusual name is probably derived from the Old English motes funta, meaning 'spring near the confluence' or 'spring of the moot' or possibly 'spring of the stone' (from the Old English motere: sonte).^{[citation needed]}

The village church is dedicated to St Andrew and its oldest parts date from the 12th century.^[3] Restorations were carried out in the 1870s and 1880s.^[3]

Mottisfont formerly had a railway station on the Sprat and Winkle Line, which closed in the 1960s. The nearby Dunbridge station on the Wessex Main Line has recently been renamed as Mottisfont and Dunbridge.^[when?] The Test Way and Monarch's Way long-distance footpaths pass through the village.

References

^ "Parish Headcounts, Area: Mottisfont CP". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. 2001. Retrieved 28 February 2008.
^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 14 December 2016.
^ ^a ^b O’Brien, Charles; Bailey, Bruce; Pevsner, Nikolaus; Lloyd, David W. (2018). The Buildings of England Hampshire: South. Yale University Press. pp. 394–395. ISBN 9780300225037.