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Up Nately

Up Nately is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Mapledurwell and Up Nately, in the Basingstoke and Deane district, in Hampshire, England, located to the south east of Basingstoke. Its nearest railway station is in Hook, three miles to the east of the village. The Basingstoke Canal runs through the village from the former Penny Bridge (on the Greywell Road) in the west, under Brick Kiln Bridge (Blackstocks Lane), Slades Bridge (Heather Lane) and Eastrop Bridge (Heather Row Lane), and, to the east of the village, through the collapsed Greywell Tunnel. In 1931 the parish had a population of 128.[2]

Up Nately
St. Stephen's church
Up Nately is located in Hampshire
Up Nately
Up Nately
Location within Hampshire
Population333 (2011 Census)[1]
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townBASINGSTOKE
Postcode districtRG27
Dialling code01256
PoliceHampshire and Isle of Wight
FireHampshire and Isle of Wight
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Hampshire
51°15′39″N 1°00′02″W / 51.2607°N 1.0006°W / 51.2607; -1.0006

History edit

Originally part of the Great Manor of Mapledurwell, Up Nately was created as a separate estate in the early part of the 12th century, when it was granted to the Cistercian Abbey of Tiron in France by Adam de Port, Lord of Mapledurwell[3] and confirmed by Henry I. Tiron sent a colony of Benedictine monks to settle in its new estate, which became Andwell Priory.[4][5] As an alien priory with an allegiance to a foreign enemy, it was sequestered by Edward III. It was sold by the Abbey of Tiron in 1391 to William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester who then bestowed it on the newly founded Winchester College.[6] Remains of the priory can be seen today.

In 1535 Corpus Christi College, Oxford (which had been granted the Manor of Mapledurwell in 1529 by William Frost of Avington) acquired land in Up Nately in Heather Row Lane.[7]

In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Up Nately as:

a parish in Basingstoke district Hants; 1 mile S of Nately-Scures, and 4 E by S of Basingstoke r. station. Post-town, Basingstoke. Acres, 1,013. Real property, £805. Pop., 99. Houses, 26. The living is a vicarage, annexed to the vicarage of Basing, in the diocese of Winchester.[8]

For many centuries farming has been the dominant activity in the village, although there have been periods of industrial activity such as cloth production in the 15th and 16th century and brick making at the end of the 19th century.[9] There are a number of chalk and sand pits in fields surrounding the village, indicating historic quarrying activity.[10]

Brickmaking edit

 
Arch from Up Nately brickworks

In 1897 Sir Frederick Seager Hunt, a Conservative Party politician and distiller, who two years earlier had bought the Basingstoke Canal, invested £20,000 to set up the Hampshire Brick and Tile Company on 32 acres of land in Up Nately. Hunt's aim was to revive trade in the upper reaches of the canal and in particular use the canal to supply bricks from the brickworks to replace the wooden huts at the Aldershot Garrison. Bricks from Up Nately were also supplied to local builders in towns along the Canal and accounted for half of the traffic in bricks using the canal. To fire the kiln, about fifty tons of coal per week were supplied by barge from Basingstoke.

However, the business did not prove to be viable. Sir Frederick sold his shares in the company and the company went into receivership by 1901. The site was used by the Nately Pottery Company from 1901 to 1908. Some of the brickworks buildings remained until the 1940s and the Kiln Chimney was demolished during the Second World War.[11]

The arches of two kilns and some sheds from the brick works remain in Heather Lane, along with the Brickyard Arm which was a short 100 metre long branch off the main canal where bricks were loaded onto the barges. The name of Brick Kiln Bridge in the village is a legacy of the brickworks.

Governance edit

In 1880 Up Nately became a civil parish of 1,149 acres. On 1 April 1932 it merged, along with its neighbouring parish of Andwell, with Mapledurwell to form the current civil parish of Mapledurwell and Up Nately[12][13] and part of the Basing ward of Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council.[14] The borough council is a non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council.

Conservation Area edit

The southern part of the village lies within the Up Nately Conservation Area.[15][16] This was designated in 1981 by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council in recognition of the special architectural and historic interest of the village.

Local Nature Reserve edit

 
Up Nately Local Nature Reserve

Since the partial collapse of the Greywell Tunnel in the 1930s, the last five miles of the Basingstoke Canal from the tunnel to Basingstoke has remained isolated from the rest of the canal. Whilst most of this section has been drained, the part between the western end of the Greywell Tunnel and Penny Bridge in Up Nately still has water in it and has been preserved by the Basingstoke Canal Authority as the Up Nately Local Nature Reserve.[17]

The Reserve, which has an area of 2.83 hectares (7.0 acres) and is part of Butter Wood Site of Special Scientific Interest, supports the following wildlife: coot, moorhen, mallard duck, little grebe, ruddy darter, water vole, ramsons and badgers. The Greywell Tunnel is an important hibernation site for bat species including the Pipistrelle, Natterer and Daubenton. The rare Barbastelle bat has also been recorded there.

Penny Bridge marks the start of a public footpath eastwards along the length of the Canal's former towpath. However, the Basingstoke Canal Society, working with local authorities, aims to open up a foot and cycle path to the west which would, as close as possible, follow the route of the canal from Penny Bridge to Basingstoke.[18]

St Stephen's Church edit

St Stephen's Church dates from around 1200, with 15th and 19th century alterations and is Grade II* listed.

The church includes a memorial to Alfred James Clark. Clark had joined the Army in 1914. In 1916, the hospital where he had been a patient was bombed. When erected, the memorial was unusual, being the second such one-man memorial in the UK.[19]

The altar cloth has a mysterious inscription to the fallen of the Great War. It lists sixteen names of servicemen who are from different regiments, different parts of the country, and who died in different places. The association between them is unclear.[19]

The churchyard contains the war graves of Frank Evans[20] and Alan Sidney Woodbridge.[21]

Further reading edit

  • Friends of St Stephen's St Stephen's Church Up Nately (church guide, available from the church)

References edit

  1. ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". NOMIS Local Area Report. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Population statistics Up Nately Ch/CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Basingstoke and Deane Council, Conservation Area Appraisal: Up Nately" (PDF). Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  4. ^ "British History Online, A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 2, Alien houses: Priory of Andwell". Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  5. ^ "Victoria County History of Up Nately" (PDF).
  6. ^ "Victoria County History of Up Nately" (PDF).
  7. ^ "Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Up Nately and Andwell" (PDF). Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  8. ^ "History of Up Nately in Basingstoke". Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  9. ^ "Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, Up Nately and Andwell" (PDF). Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  10. ^ "National Library of Scotland georeferenced map". Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  11. ^ "Basingstoke Archaeological & Historical Society, Newsletter 198, February 2012" (PDF). Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  12. ^ "Hampshire County Council's legal record of public rights of way in Hampshire" (PDF). 2008. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
  13. ^ "Basingstoke Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 23 May 2023.
  14. ^ "Basingstoke and Deane Wards info". 2010. Archived from the original on 24 October 2010. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
  15. ^ "Up Nately Conservation Area Appraisal" (PDF). 2003. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  16. ^ "Up Nately Conservation Area Map" (PDF). 2003. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  17. ^ "Natural England Up Nately LNR". Retrieved 29 November 2020.
  18. ^ "Basingstoke Canal Society The unnavigable section into Basingstoke (and the proposed "Hants and Berks Canal" link)". Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  19. ^ a b Friends of St Stephen's St Stephen's Church Up Nately
  20. ^ EVANS, FRANK
  21. ^ WOODBRIDGE, ALAN SIDNEY

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