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St Mary's church |
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Upton Grey
Upton Grey shown within Hampshire |
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| OS grid reference | SU6986748182 |
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| Parish | Upton Grey |
| District | Basingstoke and Deane |
| Shire county | Hampshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Basingstoke |
| Postcode district | RG25 2 |
| Dialling code | 01256 |
| Police | Hampshire |
| Fire | Hampshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | North East Hampshire |
| List of places: UK • England • Hampshire | |
Upton Grey is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England.
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The village is on the line of an ancient Roman road, the Chichester to Silchester Way.
The Grey derives from the years when the village was owned by the de Grey family and was used to differentiate the village from the many other Uptons.
The Manor House dates from Elizabethan times when the Matthew family lived there. The famous Elizabethan poet, George Puttenham, lived at Herriard House but also had a farm at Upton Grey. It was there that he kept his seventeen-year-old sex slave whom he had kidnapped in London. Eventually she was released when Puttenham's long suffering wife discovered her existence.[1]
Charles Holme purchased several houses and a great deal of the surrounding land in Upton Grey. The Old Manor House, which he rented to tenants for the rest of his life, was in fragile condition. Holme then commissioned a local architect Ernest Newton to refurbish it, keeping many of the original timbers. Today's Edwardian decoration encloses oak rooms, a 16th century staircase and original roof timbers. Newton's house was finished in 1907. Gertrude Jekyll created a four and a half acre garden around it.
The village of Upton Grey is part of the civil parish of Upton Grey,[2] and is part of the Upton Grey and the Candovers ward of Basingstoke and Deane borough council.[3] The borough council is a Non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council.
Upton Grey is located near to Basingstoke, which lies to the north-west. There are various other villages located in all directions around the village, including:
There are various amenities in the village. These include the Upton Grey Shop and Post Office, the Hoddington Arms public house, St Mary’s Church, a village hall, a duck pond, and a war memorial to the south of the church.