Mottisfont

{{Short description|Village and parish in Hampshire, England}}

{{Use British English|date=November 2024}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}

{{Infobox UK place

|type = Village

|country = England

|coordinates = {{coord|51.039553|-1.53711|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|official_name= Mottisfont

| static_image=

| population = 351

| population_ref = {{ cite web |url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=795167&c=Mottisfont&d=16&e=15&g=452789&i=1001x1003x1004&o=1&m=0&r=1&s=1207507564250&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 |title=Parish Headcounts, Area: Mottisfont CP|work=Neighbourhood Statistics |publisher=Office for National Statistics |date=2001|accessdate=2008-02-28}}
385 (2011 Census including Dunbridge){{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11126717&c=Mottisfont&d=16&e=62&g=6431836&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1481713930849&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|accessdate=14 December 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics |work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}

|shire_district= Test Valley

|shire_county = Hampshire

|region= South East England

|constituency_westminster= Romsey and Southampton North

| civil_parish= Mottisfont

|post_town= ROMSEY

|postcode_area= SO

|postcode_district= SO51

|dial_code= 01794

|os_grid_reference= SU324268

|static_image_name = Mottisfont Lane (geograph 4811980).jpg|static_image_caption = Lane through Mottisfont village

}}

Mottisfont is a village and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England, around {{convert|4|mi|km}} northwest of Romsey. The village is the location of Mottisfont Abbey. Much of the surrounding land, which is part of the Mottisfont Estate, and several other buildings in the village are in the care of the National Trust.

The unusual name is probably derived from the Old English motes funta, meaning 'spring near the confluence' or 'spring of the moot' or possibly 'spring of the stone' (from the Old English motere: sonte).{{cn|date=April 2023}}

The village church is dedicated to St Andrew and its oldest parts date from the 12th century. Restorations were carried out in the 1870s and 1880s.{{cite book |last1=O’Brien |first1=Charles|last2=Bailey |first2=Bruce|last3=Pevsner |first3=Nikolaus |last4=Lloyd |first4=David W. |date=2018 |title=The Buildings of England Hampshire: South |publisher=Yale University Press |pages=394–395|isbn=9780300225037}}

Mottisfont formerly had a railway station on the Sprat and Winkle Line, which closed in the 1960s. In 2006, the nearby Dunbridge station on the Wessex Main Line was renamed as {{stnlnk|Mottisfont and Dunbridge}}. The Test Way and Monarch's Way long-distance footpaths pass through the village.