| Ogdens | |
|---|---|
 Huckles Brook near Ogdens Farm | |
  Ogdens Location within Hampshire | |
| OS grid reference | SU178121 |
| Civil parish | |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | FORDINGBRIDGE |
| Postcode district | SP6 |
| Dialling code | 01425 |
| Police | Hampshire |
| Fire | Hampshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
Ogdens is a small hamlet south of Hyde Common near Frogham in the New Forest area of Hampshire, England.
A hamlet is a small human settlement. In different jurisdictions and geographies, hamlets may be the size of a town, village or parish, be considered a smaller settlement or subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. The word and concept of a hamlet have roots in the Anglo-Norman settlement of England, where the old French hamlet came to apply to small human settlements. In British geography, a hamlet is considered smaller than a village and distinctly without a church or other place of worship.
Hyde is a village and civil parish in the New Forest near Fordingbridge in Hampshire, England.
Frogham is a small village in the New Forest National Park of Hampshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Hyde. Its nearest town is Fordingbridge, which lies approximately 1.8 miles (2.5 km) north-west from the village.
Ogdens is a hamlet in the civil parish of Hyde. It is situated in the valley of Latchmore Brook (or Huckles Brook). [1] Most of the settlement is surrounded by the heathland and woodland of the New Forest. [1] The hamlet is very rural with a few post-war dwellings, mixed in with older houses scattered on tracks and farmland. [1] There is a car park at Ogdens allowing access to the heathland of the New Forest. [2] Nearby is Ogdens Purlieu, a boggy area of heathland between Ogdens and Dockens Water.
In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government, they are a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of ecclesiastical parishes which historically played a role in both civil and ecclesiastical administration; civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. The unit was devised and rolled out across England in the 1860s.
The Latchmore Brook is a significant stream in the New Forest, Hampshire, England. It rises from the elevated gravel plateaus in the north of the Forest, north of Fritham, and drains into the River Avon north of Ibsley.
The New Forest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England, covering southwest Hampshire and southeast Wiltshire.
The hamlet is named after Ogden Rooke, a local landowner who possessed Ogdens Purlieu in the latter half of the 17th century. [3] Purlieu is a Norman-French word meaning "the outskirts of a forest" – a place free from forest laws.
