Red Rice, Hampshire

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Red Rice is a small hamlet just south-west of Andover, Hampshire, England. It is currently home to the Red Rice Health and Fitness Centre.

[edit] Red Rice House

The Georgian Red Rice House was in the early 20th century a seat of the Miller-Mundy family, colliery owners who had moved from their estate at Shipley Park, Derbyshire. In the 1960s it was occupied by a minor Roman Catholic public school known as 'Red Rice'. Since 1982, it has been occupied by Farleigh School, a co-educational preparatory school established in 1953 at Farleigh House, near Basingstoke.

[edit] Historical significance

In December 1785 the future King George IV, then still the Prince of Wales, secretly – and illegally – married his Roman Catholic mistress, Maria Anne Fitzherbert at Red Rice House in Red Rice.