Hamptworth
{{Short description|Hamlet in Wiltshire, England}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2025}}
{{Infobox UK place
| country = England
| official_name = Hamptworth
| coordinates = {{coord|50.975|-1.654|type:city(200)_region:GB|display=inline,title}}
| label_position = left
| static_image = The Cuckoo Inn, Hamptworth - geograph.org.uk - 331735.jpg
| static_image_caption = The Cuckoo Inn
| population =
| population_ref =
| region = South West England
| unitary_england = Wiltshire
| lieutenancy_england = Wiltshire
| dial_code = 01794
| postcode_district = SP5
| postcode_area = SP
| post_town = SALISBURY
| constituency_westminster = Salisbury
| civil_parish = Landford
| os_grid_reference = SU244196
}}
Hamptworth is a hamlet in Wiltshire, England, in the extreme southeast of the county. It is in the civil parish of Landford, and lies within the boundaries of the New Forest National Park.{{cite web | url = http://www.getamap.ordnancesurveyleisure.co.uk/?q=SU2014021388 | title = Ordnance Survey Get-a-map | publisher = Ordnance Survey | access-date = 9 March 2015}}{{cite web | url = http://www.newforestnpa.gov.uk/download/downloads/id/504/national_park_boundary_map | title = National Park boundary map | publisher = New Forest National Park Authority | access-date = 9 March 2015}}
Hamptworth is first mentioned in the early 13th century. Manor Farm dates from the 15th century.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1300230|desc=Manor Farmhouse, Hamptworth Road|access-date=17 January 2016}} From the 17th to late 19th century, settlement consisted of farms along the Redlynch-Landford road.{{cite web|website=British History Online|title=Victoria County History – Wiltshire – Vol 11 pp19-77 – Parishes: Downton|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/wilts/vol11/pp19-77#h2-0036|publisher=University of London|access-date=17 January 2016}} The area was once a tithing of the parish of Downton, and later became a ward of Redlynch parish. A community governance review effective 1 April 2017 transferred the eastern portion of Redlynch parish, including Hamptworth, to Landford.{{Cite web|url=https://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/communitygovernancereview.htm|title=The Wiltshire Council (Reorganisation of Community Governance) Order 2016|last=|first=|date=22 December 2016|website=Wiltshire Council|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=21 December 2017}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.landfordparishcouncil.org.uk/nomansland-hamptworth-join-landford|title=Landford Parish council with Nomansland & Hamptworth|last=|first=|date=|website=Landford Parish Council|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=21 December 2017}}
Hamptworth has a pub, the Cuckoo Inn, an early 18th-century building.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1023929|desc=The Cuckoo|access-date=17 January 2016|fewer-links=yes}} Hamptworth also has a golf club, Hamptworth Golf Club, which has one of the UK's only Par 6 at 666 Yards called 'The Beast'. The course was designed and constructed in 1994 by Philip Sanders and Brian D Pierson.{{cite web |url=http://www.hamptworthgolf.co.uk/ |title=Hamptworth Golf Club |access-date=2 September 2016}}
The local school is the New Forest Primary School which has two sites: for younger children at Landford and older children at Nomansland. The latter began as a National School of 1867 on Hamptworth common, then in the 20th century the village of Nomansland expanded to surround it.{{cite web|website=Wiltshire Community History|title=Nomansland and Hamptworth C. of E. Aided Primary School|url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/School/Details/860|publisher=Wiltshire Council|access-date=17 January 2016}}
A Wesleyan Methodist chapel was built in 1876 near the north end of Lyburn Road; it closed in the 1970s.{{cite web|website=Wiltshire Community History|title=Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Hamptworth, Redlynch|url=https://apps.wiltshire.gov.uk/communityhistory/Church/Details/705|publisher=Wiltshire Council|access-date=17 January 2016}}
Hamptworth Lodge is a country house built in 1912 in the Tudor style, to designs of Sir Guy Dawber. It was built to replace a seventeenth century building, parts of which have been incorporated into the present structure. It is constructed of Flemish bond brick with timber-framing and has a tiled roof and ornamental brick chimney stacks. The house is Grade II* listed.{{National Heritage List for England|num=1184207|desc=Hamptworth Lodge|access-date=17 January 2016|fewer-links=yes}}