Grateley
Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Grateley is a village, parish[1] and civil parish in the north west of Hampshire, England.
Name
The name is derived from the Old English grēat lēah, meaning 'great wood or clearing'.[2]
Geography
The village is divided into two distinct settlements, Script error: No such module "convert". apart: the old village and a newer settlement built around the railway station on the West of England Main Line.[3] The hamlet of Palestine adjoins the railway station settlement, although it is located in the civil parish of Over Wallop.[4]
Pre-history
Grateley lies just to the south of the prehistoric hill fort of Quarley Hill. The parish covers Script error: No such module "convert". with 616 people[5] living in 250 dwellings.
History
King Æthelstan issued his first official law code in Grateley in about 930 AD.[6] Recorded in the early 12th century Quadripartitus text,[7] which referred to a ‘great assembly at Grateley’ (magna synodo apud Greateleyam). The legislative assembly and construct of the Grateley law code acted as a manifestation of the peripatetic nature of Anglo-Saxon kingship.[8]
In the 20th century Grateley was one of many ammunition dumps during the World Wars.[9]
Amenities and economy
The village has one pub, a thirteenth-century church dedicated to St Leonard, a primary school, a school for children with Asperger syndrome, a railway station, a small business park, a golf driving range, and is surrounded by farmland with ancient footpaths and droveways.
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Notes
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