Grateley
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 The Plough Inn |
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 Grateley
Grateley shown within Hampshire |
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| Population | 616 |
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| OS grid reference | SU2774441883 |
| District | Test Valley |
| Shire county | Hampshire |
| Region | South East |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | Andover |
| Postcode district | SP11 |
| Dialling code | 01264 |
| Police | Hampshire |
| Fire | Hampshire |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| EU Parliament | South East England |
| UK Parliament | North West Hampshire |
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Grateley is a village and civil parish in the north west of Hampshire, England.
The name is derived from the Old English grēat lēah, meaning 'great wood or clearing'.[1]
The village is divided into two distinct settlements, 0.75 miles (1.21 km) apart: the old village and a newer settlement built around the railway station on the West of England Main Line.[2] The hamlet of Palestine adjoins the railway station settlement, although it is located in the civil parish of Over Wallop.[3]
Grateley lies just to the south of the prehistoric hill fort of Quarley Hill. The parish covers 1,551 acres (6.28 km2) with 616 people[4] living in 250 dwellings. The village has two shops, two pubs, a thirteenth-century church dedicated to St Leonard, a primary school, a school for children with Aspergers Syndrome, a railway station, a small business park, a golf driving range, and is surrounded by farmland with ancient footpaths and droveways.
King Æthelstan issued his first official law code in Grateley in about 930 AD.[5]
In the 20th century Grateley was one of many ammunition dumps during the World Wars.[6]
The economic history of Grateley is agricultural, but less than 10% of the village population now rely upon agriculture as an occupation.[citation needed]
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