Nether Wallop

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

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

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

{{Infobox UK place

|country= England

|coordinates = {{coord|51.127635|-1.573184|display=inline,title}}

|official_name= Nether Wallop

|population= 876

|population_ref = (2011 Census){{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11126840&c=Nether+Wallop&d=16&e=62&g=6431782&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1483026844720&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=29 December 2016|publisher = Office for National Statistics |work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}

|civil_parish= Nether Wallop

|shire_district= Test Valley

|shire_county= Hampshire

|region= South East England

|constituency_westminster= Romsey and Southampton North

|post_town= STOCKBRIDGE

|postcode_district = SO20

|postcode_area= SO

|dial_code= 01264

|os_grid_reference= SU2996536570

|website= [http://www.thewallops.net/index.htm The Wallops]

|static_image_name = Nether Wallop - Country Cottage - geograph.org.uk - 1801379.jpg

|static_image_caption = Thatched cottage}}

Nether Wallop is a village and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England, {{convert|3.5|miles|km|abbr=off}} northwest of Stockbridge, and {{convert|7|miles|km|abbr=off}} southwest of Andover.

Nether Wallop is the easternmost of the three villages collectively known as The Wallops, the other two being Over Wallop and Middle Wallop. The name "Wallop" derives from the Old English words {{lang|ang|waella}} and hop, which taken together roughly mean "the valley of springing water".

The village was the site of the Battle of Guoloph that took place around 440 CE. The element "Wallop" is first attested in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Wallope", while Nether Wallop is first attested as "Wollop inferior" in Episcopal Registers {{c.|1270}}.Eilert Ekwall, Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p.493.

Nether Wallop contains many old thatched cottages, and has been featured in books and TV programmes as one of the prettiest villages in England.{{Cite web |url=http://www.ceepol.com/wallop/wallop_intro.htm |title=Dorothy Beresford 'Nether Wallop in Hampshire' 1973 |access-date=20 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101030233618/http://www.ceepol.com/wallop/wallop_intro.htm |archive-date=30 October 2010 |url-status=dead }} In particular, Dane Cottage in Five Bells Lane was used as Miss Marple's home in the village of St. Mary Mead for the BBC TV adaptations of the Agatha Christie novels. The house and many of the surrounding lanes within the village were used as the setting and are commonly seen throughout many of the Miss Marple films.

Sir Richard Reade (1511–1575), Lord Chancellor of Ireland, was a native of Nether Wallop, where his family were Lords of the Manor for several generations.

The conductor Leopold Stokowski died at his home in Nether Wallop on 13 September 1977.

File:St Andrews Church Nether Wallop (geograph 3905330).jpg

The church of St Andrew is partly Anglo-Saxon, and fragments of frescoes dating to that period have been discovered.[https://books.google.com/books?id=xO6FyEgYfpkC&dq=%22Early+medieval%22+Irish+%22wall+painting%22&pg=PA134 Richard Gem and Pamela Tudor-Craig in ''Anglo-Saxon England]