Herriard

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Herriard
Church of St. Mary, Herriard.jpg
Herriard Church
Herriard is located in Hampshire
Herriard
Herriard
 Herriard shown within Hampshire
Population 247 [1]
OS grid reference SU637523
Civil parish Herriard
District Basingstoke and Deane
Shire county Hampshire
Region South East
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town BASINGSTOKE
Postcode district RG25
Dialling code 01256
Police Hampshire
Fire Hampshire
Ambulance South Central
EU Parliament South East England
UK Parliament North East Hampshire
Website Herriard parish council
List of places
UK
England
Hampshire

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Herriard is a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England, situated between Alton, and Basingstoke. At the 2001 census it had a population of 247. It was formerly served by the now-disused Herriard railway station on the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway.

Governance

The village of Herriard is part of the civil parish of Herriard[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.

Geography

The parish also contains the village of Southrope and the hamlet of Nashes Green. It borders the Hampshire parishes of Winslade to the north, Tunworth to the north east, Weston Patrick to the east, Lasham to the south and Ellisfield to the west.

Buildings

St. Mary's Church in Herriard[4] was built by Sir Richard de Herriard around 1200. There was a major refurbishment and the western tower was added in 1878 for Francis Jervoise. Herriard House was a Queen Anne mansion demolished in the 1960s. It was the home of the Jervoise family.

Notable residents

  • George Puttenham. The Elizabethan poet lived at Herriard House which was his wife's inheritance. He beat her and had affairs with all their maidservants, impregnating most of them.[5] He also kept a young sex slave at Upton Grey. When two Royal officials came to arrest him, he had his servants tie them up in Herriard churchyard, where he beat them about the head with a foot whipping cane.[5]

Economy

Herriard is home to a number of businesses, such as AVS Fencing Supplies (formerly the Herriard Sawmills site), mixing console manufacturer Audient, and medical communications consultancy Strategen.

References

  1. Hampshire Facts and Figures
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