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Red Rice
Red Rice shown within Hampshire |
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| OS grid reference | SU3379942084 |
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| District | Test Valley |
| Shire county | Hampshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Andover |
| Postcode district | SP11 |
| Dialling code | 01264 |
| Police | Hampshire |
| Fire | Hampshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | North West Hampshire |
| List of places: UK • England • Hampshire | |
Red Rice is a hamlet south-west of Andover, Hampshire, England.
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.
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.