Nately Scures

Nately Scures

St. Swithun's Church, Nately Scures
Nately Scures
 Nately Scures shown within Hampshire
OS grid referenceSU712533
Civil parishNewnham
DistrictBasingstoke and Deane
Shire countyHampshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post town HOOK
Postcode district GU34
Dialling code 01420
Police Hampshire
Fire Hampshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK ParliamentBasingstoke
WebsiteNewnham, Nately Scures and Water End parish council
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Coordinates: 51°16′27″N 0°58′52″W / 51.2742°N 0.9812°W / 51.2742; -0.9812

Nately Scures is a small village in the civil parish of Newnham in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest large village is Hook, which lies approximately 1.7 miles (2.7 km) north-east from the village.

Governance

The village of Nately Scures is part of the civil parish of Newnham[1] and is part of the Basing ward of Basingstoke and Deane borough council.[2] The borough council is a Non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council.

Religious sites

St. Swithun's was built of flint and rubble around 1175. It is considered to be the best largely unspoilt example of a Norman single-cell apsidal church in England.

Etymology

Hampshire Notes and Queries, Repr. from the Winchester Observer gives the name as meaning 'cattle field'. It is derived from the Anglo Saxon neat ('cattle' or 'beast' -- being a corruption of ne witan, or 'not to know'). Scures is from Anglo Saxon scua ('wood' or 'shade').[3]

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