Ampfield

Ampfield
Ampfield
Village
	St Mark's Church
	Ampfield Location within Hampshire
Population	1,474 (2001); 1,583 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference	SU406237
Civil parish	Ampfield;
District	Test Valley;
Shire county	Hampshire;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Romsey
Postcode district	SO51
Dialling code	01794
Police	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Fire	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Romsey and Southampton North;
	List of places UK England Hampshire 51°00′41″N 1°25′21″W / 51.0114°N 1.4226°W

Ampfield is a village and civil parish in the Borough of Test Valley in Hampshire, England, between Romsey, Eastleigh, and Winchester. It had a population at the 2001 census of 1,474,^[2] increasing to 1,583 at the 2011 Census.^[1]

History

Knapp was named in the Domesday Book in 1086, in the Edgegate Hundered.^[3]

Ampfield lies on sands and clays of Eocene age near the northern edge of the Hampshire Basin. Ampfield Wood on the London Clay^[4] to the north of the village is crossed by the Monarch's Way long distance footpath. The parish includes the hamlets of Knapp and Gosport.

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The village church is St Mark.^[6] Its construction took 3 years, finishing in 1841.^[6] It has stained glass windows dating from the 1850s.^[6]

The Potters Heron Hotel, renowned for its thatched roof, is situated in Ampfield Village.

The author of the Thomas the Tank Engine series of books, Rev. W Awdry, was born in Ampfield Vicarage.

^ ^a ^b "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 7 December 2016.
^ "Parish Headcounts, Area: Ampfield CP". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. 2001. Retrieved 9 March 2008.
^ "Knapp | Domesday Book". opendomesday.org. Retrieved 30 October 2024.
^ British Geological Survey (2002), Winchester. England and Wales Sheet 299. Solid and Drift Geology, 1:50,000 Series geological map, Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey, ISBN 0-7518-3340-1
^ Ampfield CofE Primary School Website, retrieved 5 June 2020
^ ^a ^b ^c O’Brien, Charles; Bailey, Bruce; Pevsner, Nikolaus; Lloyd, David W. (2018). The Buildings of England Hampshire: South. Yale University Press. p. 91. ISBN 9780300225037.

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