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Grateley

Grateley

Human settlement in England

Grateley is a village and civil parish in the north west of Hampshire, England.

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The name is derived from the Old English grēat lēah, meaning 'great wood or clearing'.[2]

The village is divided into two distinct settlements, 0.75 miles (1.21 km) apart: the old village and a newer settlement built around the railway station on the West of England Main Line.[3] The hamlet of Palestine adjoins the railway station settlement, although it is located in the civil parish of Over Wallop.[4]

Grateley lies just to the south of the prehistoric hill fort of Quarley Hill. The parish covers 1,551 acres (6.28 km2) with 616 people[5] living in 250 dwellings. The village has one pub, a thirteenth-century church dedicated to St Leonard, a primary school, a school for children with Asperger syndrome, a railway station, a small business park, a golf driving range, and is surrounded by farmland with ancient footpaths and droveways.

King Æthelstan issued his first official law code in Grateley in about 930 AD.[6] Recorded in the early 12th century Quadripartitus text,[7] which referred to a ‘great assembly at Grateley’ (magna synodo apud Greateleyam). The legestaive assembly and construct of the Grateley law code acted as a manifestation of the peripatetic nature of Anglo-Saxon kingship.[8]

In the 20th century Grateley was one of many ammunition dumps during the World Wars.[9]

The economic history of Grateley is agricultural, but less than 10% of the village population now rely upon agriculture as an occupation.[citation needed]

Notes

  1. [1]
    "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 18 December 2016.
  2. [2]
    "Grateley, Hampshire". Key to English Place Names. University of Nottingham.
  3. [3]
    "Introduction". Grateley Parish Council.
  4. [4]
    Map of Grateley, Hampshire (Map). Cartography by Ordnance Survey. streetmap.co.uk. Retrieved 19 July 2012.
  5. [5]
    "Neighbourhood Statistics (Test Valley Borough)". Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 29 July 2012.
  6. [6]
    Lavelle, Ryan (2005). "Why Grateley? Reflections on Anglo-Saxon Kingship in a Hampshire Landscape" (PDF). Hampshire Studies: Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society. 60: 154–69.
  7. [7]
    name="foo" Lavelle, Ryan (2005). "Why Grateley? Reflections on Anglo-Saxon Kingship in a Hampshire Landscape" (PDF). Hampshire Studies: Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society. 60: 154–69.
  8. [8]
    Lavelle, Ryan (2005). "Why Grateley? Reflections on Anglo-Saxon Kingship in a Hampshire Landscape" (PDF). Hampshire Studies: Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society. 60: 154–69.
  9. [9]
    "History - Part twelve". Grateley Parish Council. Later, Grateley, like many areas within reach of the south coast ports, became a munitions store for part of the invasion force involved in Operation Overlord.

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