Nether Wallop is a village in central Hampshire

Hampshire

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, England

England

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It is part of The Wallops: Nether, Middle

Middle Wallop

Middle Wallop is the local name given to an area between the two Parishes of Over Wallop and Nether Wallop in Hampshire, England. As it does not have its own parish technically it does not exist, however road signs and maps make reference to the location and have done so since the 18th century,...

 and Over Wallop

Over Wallop

Over Wallop is a small village and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. The village lies approximately north-west from Stockbride, just off the Hampshire-Wiltshire border....

. The name derives from 'waella' (stream) and 'hop' (valley) or 'the valley of springing water'. The element 'Wallop' is first attested in the Domesday Book

Domesday Book

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 of 1086 as 'Wallope'; 'Wollop inferior', that is to say Nether Wallop, is first attested circa 1270 in Episcopal Registers.The village contains many old thatched cottages and has been featured in books and TV programmes as one of the prettiest villages in England.

Nether Wallop was used as the setting for Miss Marple

Miss Marple

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's village of St. Mary Mead

St. Mary Mead

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 in the BBC adaptations

Miss Marple (TV series)

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 of Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie

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's novels.

Sir Richard Reade

Richard Reade

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 ( 1511-1575 ) Lord Chancellor of Ireland

Lord Chancellor of Ireland

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, was a native of Nether Wallop.

The conductor Leopold Stokowski

Leopold Stokowski

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 died at his home in Nether Wallop on 13 September 1977.

The church is partly Anglo-Saxon

Anglo-Saxon architecture

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, and unique fragments of frescoes apparently dating to the late Anglo-Saxon period have been discovered.