5-524: Middle Wallop is a village in the civil parish of Nether Wallop in Hampshire , England, on the A343 road . At the 2011 Census the population was included in the civil parish of Over Wallop . The village has a public house, The George Inn, and a petrol station as well as The Wallops Parish Hall. Together the villages of Over Wallop , Middle Wallop and Nether Wallop are known as The Wallops and run in
10-828: A line roughly north to south following the course of the Wallop Brook, which has its source in Over Wallop. To the East of the villages the area is dominated by the Middle Wallop airfield , home to the Army Air Corps , a branch of the British Army . It was supposedly the site of a battle between certain Vitalinus, possibly Vortigern , and Ambrosius Aurelianus . This Hampshire location article
15-463: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Nether Wallop Nether Wallop is a village and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire , England, 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (6 kilometres) northwest of Stockbridge , and seven miles (eleven kilometres) southwest of Andover . Nether Wallop is the easternmost of the three villages collectively known as The Wallops,
20-821: 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" c. 1270 in Episcopal Registers. Nether Wallop contains many old thatched cottages, and has been featured in books and TV programmes as one of
25-724: The prettiest villages in England. 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 ,
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