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]
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