Ecchinswell
Coordinates: 51°20′01″N 1°17′02″W / 51.333615°N 1.284027°WEcchinswell is a village in the civil parish of Ecchinswell, Sydmonton and Bishops Green in the English county of Hampshire.
Geography
Watership Down, location of the famous Richard Adams' novel of the same name, is just South of Ecchinswell. Ladle Hill on Great Litchfield Down, also lies to the south. Part of the hill is a 10.37 hectares (25.6 acres) biological SSSI, first notified in 1978. The hill has a partially completed Iron Age hill fort on its summit, and the surrounding area is rich in Iron Age tumuli, enclosures, lynchets and field systems. Ladle hill and Watership down are easily accessed from the Wayfarer's Walk cross county footpath that passes through the parish.
Governance
The village of Ecchinswell is part of the civil parish of Ecchinswell, Sydmonton and Bishops Green[1] and is part of the Burghclere, Highclere and St Mary Bourne ward of Basingstoke and Deane borough council.[2] The borough council is a Non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council.
Notable people
- The potter, Geoffrey Eastop (1921–2014), lived in the village
- Lord Turner of Ecchinswell, Chairman of the Financial Services Authority and the Committee on Climate Change, has a cottage in Ecchinswell
Literature
Nuthanger Farm at Ecchinswell features extensively in Richard Adams' Watership Down.
References
- ↑ "Hampshire County Council's legal record of public rights of way in Hampshire" (PDF). 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2010.
- ↑ "Basingstoke and Deane Wards info". 2010. Retrieved 29 October 2010.
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