1. Character

2. History

3. Parish churches

4. Elvetham
    Air crash 

5. Other notable buildings

6. Sport and leisure

7. Transport
    Road  Railway  Bus  Nearby towns 

8. Notable residents

9. Preservation Society

10. References

11. Bibliography

12. External links

Hartley Wintney is a village civil parish in the Hart district of Hampshire, England. It lies about {{convert|3|mi|0}} northwest of Fleet and {{convert|8|mi}} east of Basingstoke. The parish includes the village of Phoenix Green as well as the hamlets of Dipley, Elvetham, Hartfordbridge, and West Green.

The 2011 census recorded the parish's population as 4,999.^[1]

Character

The parish includes the large wooded areas such as Yateley Heath Wood and part of Hazeley Heath. The River Hart flows through the parish northeast of the town. The River Whitewater forms the western parish boundary. The southern boundary now follows the M3 motorway.

The town has a typical wide Hampshire main street, lined with local businesses, shops, public houses and a Baptist church. The town has also a Methodist church. The Roman Catholic church of St Thomas More was built in the 1960s. In 2016 a fire destroyed its roof.^[2]

The town is known for its numerous antique shops. At the southern end is the green and with thatched duck house. The pond is called Hatton's Pond, after a landlord of the Waggon and Horses public house in about 1870.^[3] The red-brick Church of England parish church of St John the Evangelist overlooks the green.

Beyond the green are the Mildmay oak trees. They were planted at the behest of Lady St John Mildmay in response to a call in 1807 by Admiral Collingwood after the Battle of Trafalgar for landowners to plant oaks to provide timber for naval ships. The cricket green, home of the oldest cricket club in Hampshire, is behind the shops, with a second duckpond and Dutch-gabled farmhouse, Causeway Farm, a short distance away through a stand of oaks..

In 1831 the parish (then excluding Elvetham and part of Hartfordbridge) had a population of 1,139. In 2004 the ward had a population of 4,954. The town is twinned with Saint-Savin near Poitiers, France and with Malle in Belgium.^[4]

Hartley Row is a former hamlet within Hartley Wintney.^[5]

History

In prehistory the area was probably fairly heavily wooded with a lake and a marshy area. The Domesday Book of 1086 does not record Hartley Wintney by name. Both before and after the Norman conquest of England it was probably part of the royal manor of Odiham.{{sfn|Page|1911|pp=79–81}}

The earliest record of Hartley Wintney by name is from the 12th century, when Wintney Priory of Cistercian nuns was founded there. In the 13th century its toponym was variously recorded as Hercelega, Hurtlegh or Hertleye Wynteneye. This last version means "forest clearing where the deer graze by Winta's island".{{citation needed|date=October 2017}} Winta was probably a Saxon who held the island in the marshes. The toponym was recorded as Hurtleye Winteney or Wytteneye in the 14th century and Herteley Witney in the 16th century.{{sfn|Page|1911|pp=79–81}}

About 100 years after the Norman conquest Hartley Wintney was made a separate manor held by the FitzPeter family. It was Geoffrey FitzPeter who founded the Cistercian priory.{{sfn|Page|1911|pp=79–81}} A deer park stretched from Odiham to the outskirts of the settlement and to the north. It was used for 600 years by royalty and others for hunting, and its wood was used for fuel.

Parish churches

In 1869–70 a new parish church of St John the Evangelist was built nearer the centre of the town. It is a Gothic Revival building designed by EA Lansdowne.{{sfn|Pevsner|Lloyd|1967|p=274}} In the 20th century the Diocese of Winchester declared St Mary's redundant and vested it in the Churches Conservation Trust, leaving St John's as the parish's sole Anglican place of worship.

Elvetham

Elvetham is a hamlet about {{convert|1|mi}} east of Hartley Wintney. Until the 20th century it was a separate civil parish. Hartfordbridge, about {{convert|3/4|mi}} northeast of Hartley Wintney, was partly in Elvetham parish and partly in Hartley Wintney.{{sfn|Lewis|1931|pp=421–427}}

Elvetham was a manor by the time of Edward the Confessor in the 11th century.{{sfn|Page|1911|pp=74–76}} There has been a country house there since at least 1535, when John Seymour entertained Henry VIII there. Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford entertained Elizabeth I there in 1591.{{sfn|Page|1911|pp=74–76}} Of that house no trace remains. The present Elvetham Hall was designed by Samuel Sanders Teulon and built in 1859–62. It is now a Grade II* listed building.^[7] Formerly the seat of the Barons Calthorpe, the house is now a 70-bedroom hotel, conference and banqueting venue.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}

Elvetham had a parish church from an early date, but in 1840 it was dismantled. The present Romanesque Revival church of St Mary the Virgin in the grounds of Elvetham Hall was completed in 1841.^[8] In the 20th century the Diocese of Winchester declared it redundant. The church is now one of Elvetham Hall's conference and banqueting venues.

Air crash

On 5 October 1945 a Consolidated B-24 Liberator GR.VI aircraft of No. 311 Squadron RAF crashed and burst into flames in a field on the Elvetham Hall estate. All of its passengers and RAF crew were Czechoslovak. All 23 people aboard were killed, including five young children who were from 18 months to three years old. The Flight List had the names of the 5 crew and the 17 civilians who were on board the plane. However an extra civilian was found, a woman. 13 of the civilians were buried in a communal grave in Brookwood Civil Cemetery. The 5 aircrew received a military burial 100 metres away in Brookwood Military Cemetery. It was realised that the extra casualty was Edita Sedlakova who had been offloaded in favour of a replacement but she had stowed aboard the flight. She had not long been married to the Flight Engineer, Zdenek Sedlak, and this was their honeymoon flight home. Edita lies in the communal grave while Zdenek is in the military. Edita was just 19 years old.^[9][10]

Other notable buildings

• West Green House is an 18th-century country house owned by the National Trust. The gardens are open to the public.^[11]
• Victoria Hall, at the west end of Hartley Wintney, was designed by Thomas Edward Collcutt, built in 1897 and opened by Lady Calthorpe on 20 October 1898 to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria.^[12] It won the Hart Design Awards best new building award in 2002 for a sensitive restoration and extension.

Sport and leisure

Hartley Wintney F.C. is a Non-League football club that plays at The Memorial Playing Fields.

The town is believed to have one of the oldest continuously used cricket grounds in England.^[13]

Transport

Road

The town is on the A30 at its junction with the A323 Fleet Road, almost equidistant between Basingstoke to the west and Camberley to the east. This was the main trunk road to the West Country and Southampton from the stagecoach era until 1971, when the M3 motorway was opened. Its nearest junction is Junction 5, about {{convert|6|mi|0}} southwest of the town.

At the Phœnix pub in 1934 a group of people formed the Vintage Sports-Car Club which has gone from strength to strength until it now numbers nearly 7,000 members with races and other sporting events all over the world.

Railway

The nearest railway station is at {{rws|Winchfield}} on the South Western main line. It is about {{convert|1+1/2|mi}} south of Hartley Wintney and is signposted from the town.

Bus

Hartley Wintney Community Bus Service runs a regularly weekday commuter service to Winchfield railway station and services to Hook, Yateley, Frogmore and The Meadows. A Saturday service goes to Camberley as well as The Meadows from Hartley Wintney, via Yateley and Frogmore.^[17]

Nearby towns

• Hook – {{convert|3|mi|0}} west
• Fleet – {{convert|3|mi|0}} southeast
• Yateley – {{convert|4|mi}} northeast
• Sandhurst – {{convert|5|mi|0}} northeast
• Farnborough – {{convert|6|mi|0}} east-southeast
• Camberley – {{convert|7|mi}} east-northeast
• Aldershot – {{convert|7+1/2|mi|0}} southeast
• Basingstoke – {{convert|8|mi}} west
• Reading – {{convert|11|mi}} north
• London (central) – {{convert|39|mi}} east-northeast

Notable residents

• Field Marshal Alan Brooke (1883–1963), later Viscount Alanbrooke, had his home in the town during the Second World War and continued to live here until his death in 1963. He is buried in St Mary's churchyard, next to his daughter, who was killed in a horseriding accident. His younger son, the third Viscount Alanbrooke (1932-2018) lived in the town until his death.
• Richard C. Davis founder of "flip this house" rents a farm in Hartley Wintney. The program focuses on the process of buying, remodeling, and selling houses for profit.
• Lieutenant-General Henry Hawley (died 1759), the infamous butcher at the Battle of Culloden, lived at West Green House and is buried in the family vault beneath St Mary's Church.
• Thomas Howard (1781–1864), Hampshire county cricketer, lived all his life at Hartley Wintney.
• Admiral Sir William Milbourne James was born in the town in 1881.
• William Lethaby (1857–1931), architect and architectural historian, is buried in St Mary's parish churchyard.
• Philip Scrutton (1923–1958), leading English amateur golfer, died in a road traffic accident in Hartley Wintney on 30 October 1958 aged 35.
• William Lowe (1873–1945), cricketer for Cambridge University and Worcestrshire, died in Hartley Wintney.
• Claude Myburgh (1911–87), cricketer and soldier, lived for his latter years at Inholmes Court.
• Admiral Sir Richard Onslow (1904–75) lived in Hartley Wintney at Bears Barn in the latter part of his naval career.^[18]
• Justin Rose (born 1980), 2013 US Open golf champion, learnt to play at the local golf course.
• Sir Benjamin Rudyerd (1572–1658), politician and poet, grew up in Hartley Wintney.
• Spencer Wilks (1891–1971), president of the Rover Company and Maurice Wilks (1904–63), Chairman of the Rover Company.
• Adrian Stoop (1883–1957), Rugby union player for Harlequins and England, lived at The Grange in Hartley Wintney.

Preservation Society

Hartley Wintney Preservation Society was founded in 1966.^[19]

References

Bibliography

• {{cite book |last=Gorsky |first=David |year= |title=The Old Village of Hartley Wintney |place=Hartley Wintney |publisher=Hartley Wintney Preservation Society |isbn= |ref=harv}}
• {{cite book |editor1-last=Lewis |editor1-first=Samuel |editor1-link=Samuel Lewis (publisher) |origyear=1848 |year=1931 |title=A Topographical Dictionary of England |edition=Seventh |place=London |publisher=Samuel Lewis |pages=421–427 |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp421-427 |ref=harv}}
• {{Cite book |editor1-last=Page |editor1-first=WH |editor1-link=William Henry Page |year=1911 |title=A History of the County of Hampshire |volume=4 |series=Victoria County History |place=Westminster |publisher=Archibald Constable & Co |pages=74–76, 79–81 |url= http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol4/pp79-81 |ref=harv}}
• {{cite book |last1=Pevsner |first1=Nikolaus |authorlink1=Nikolaus Pevsner |last2=Lloyd |first2=David |year=1967 |title=Hampshire and the Isle of Wight |series=The Buildings of England |place=Harmondsworth |publisher=Penguin Books |isbn= |pages=274–275 |ref=harv}}

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