Walhampton | |
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The Walhampton Arms pub in the hamlet | |
Location within Hampshire | |
OS grid reference | SZ332958 |
Civil parish | |
District | |
Shire county | |
Region | |
Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | LYMINGTON |
Postcode district | SO41 5 |
Dialling code | 01590 |
UK Parliament | |
Walhampton is a hamlet in the New Forest National Park of Hampshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Boldre. It is approximately half a mile east of Lymington, on the east bank of the Lymington River. The Solent Way, a long-distance footpath, passes close to the hamlet. [1]
The Grade II* Burrard Monument, [2] also known as the Walhampton Monument, is located in the hamlet. It was erected in 1840 to the memory of Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, 2nd Baronet, a former Royal Navy Admiral and M.P. for Lymington from 1790 to 1832. The base of the 75-foot (23 m) tapered obelisk is designed to look like an Egyptian doorway. [3]
Walhampton has an independent prep school, the Walhampton School, which was founded after World War II. The school is housed in Walhampton House, a Grade-II*-listed building. [4] A pub, the Walhampton Arms, is housed in the former dairy on the estate, [5] listed at Grade II. [6]
Calverton is a civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England and just outside the Milton Keynes urban area, situated roughly 1 mile (1.6 km) south of Stony Stratford, and 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Central Milton Keynes. The parish consists of one village, Lower Weald, and two hamlets, Upper Weald and Middle Weald. Lower Weald is the largest of the three settlements, and Manor Farm, the parish church and the former parochial school are within its boundaries.
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General Sir Harry Burrard, 1st Baronet was a British soldier who fought in the American War of Independence, the French Revolutionary Wars and in the Peninsular War.
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Admiral Sir Harry Burrard Neale, 2nd Baronet was a British officer of the Royal Navy, and Member of Parliament for Lymington.
Sir Harry Burrard, 1st Baronet was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons for 37 years from 1741 to 1778.
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Paul Burrard of Walhampton, Hampshire was a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1705 and 1735.
The Burrard, later Burrard-Neale, later Burrard baronetcy, of Walhampton in the County of Southampton, was created in the Baronetage of Great Britain on 3 April 1769 for Harry Burrard, for many years Member of Parliament for Lymington, with remainder failing heirs male of his own to his brothers. He was the son of Paul Burrard and the grandson of Paul Burrard, who both represented Lymington in Parliament. Burrard outlived all of his four sons and was succeeded according to the special remainder by his nephew, Harry, the second Baronet, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel William Burrard.