Nether Wallop

Nether Wallop
Thatched cottage
Nether Wallop Location within Hampshire
Population	802 (2021 census)
OS grid reference	SU300366
Civil parish	Nether Wallop
District	Test Valley
Shire county	Hampshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Stockbridge
Postcode district	SO20
Dialling code	01264
Police	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Fire	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Romsey and Southampton North
Website	The Wallops
List of places UK England Hampshire 51°07′39″N1°34′24″W / 51.1276°N 1.5732°W / 51.1276; -1.5732

Nether Wallop is a village and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England, 3.5 miles (5.6 kilometres) northwest of Stockbridge, and 7 miles (11 kilometres) southwest of Andover.

Nether Wallop is the easternmost of the three villages collectively known as The Wallops, the other two being Over Wallop and Middle Wallop. The name "Wallop" derives from the Old English words waella and hop, which taken together roughly mean "the valley of springing water".

The village was the site of the Battle of Guoloph that took place around 440 CE. The element "Wallop" is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Wallope", while Nether Wallop is first attested as "Wollop inferior" in Episcopal Registers c. 1270. ^[1]

Nether Wallop contains many old thatched cottages, and has been featured in books and TV programmes as one of the prettiest villages in England. ^[2] In particular, Dane Cottage in Five Bells Lane was used as Miss Marple's home in the village of St. Mary Mead for the BBC TV adaptations of the Agatha Christie novels. The house and many of the surrounding lanes within the village were used as the setting and are commonly seen throughout many of the Miss Marple films.

Sir Richard Reade (1511–1575), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was a native of Nether Wallop, where his family were Lords of the Manor for several generations.

British Olympic skater and Hollywood movie star Belita (Belita Gladys Lyne Jepson-Turner) as born at Garlogs in Nether Wallop in 1923.

The conductor Leopold Stokowski died at his home in Nether Wallop on 13 September 1977.

St Andrews Church, Nether Wallop, Hampshire

The church of St Andrew is partly Anglo-Saxon, and fragments of frescoes dating to that period have been discovered. ^[3] It was designated as a grade I listed building in 1957. ^[4]

Demographics

Census population of Nether Wallop parish

Census	Population	Female	Male	Households	Source
2001	829	449	380	332	[5]
2011	876	464	412	354	[6]
2021	802	416	386	345	[7]

Further reading

• Richard Sawyer Saint Andrew's Church, Nether Wallop, Hampshire: Its Historical Development, Wall Paintings and Monuments pub. Saint Andrew's Church, Nether Wallop, Parochial Church Council, 1985

References

1. Eilert Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.493.
2. "Dorothy Beresford 'Nether Wallop in Hampshire' 1973". Archived from the original on 30 October 2010. Retrieved 20 November 2009.
3. Richard Gem and Pamela Tudor-Craig in Anglo-Saxon England
4. Historic England. "Church of St Andrew, Church Lane, Nether Wallop (1339423)". National Heritage List for England .
5. "Key Statistics". Office for National Statistics. Tables KS001 (Usual resident population) and KS016 (Household spaces and accommodation type). Retrieved 23 June 2025.
6. "Key Statistics". Office for National Statistics. Table KS101EW (Usual resident population) and Table KS105EW (Household composition). Retrieved 23 June 2025.
7. "Parish Profiles". 2021 United Kingdom census. Office for National Statistics. GSS E04012851 (Nether Wallop) in tables PP001 (Number of Households) and PP002 (Sex). Retrieved 5 August 2024.

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