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Stratfield Turgis

Village and parish in Hampshire, England

Field	Value
country	England
static_image_name	All Saints', Stratfield Turgis - geograph.org.uk - 175431.jpg
static_image_caption	The deconsecrated All Saints' Church, Stratfield Turgis
coordinates
official_name	Stratfield Turgis
civil_parish	Stratfield Turgis
shire_district	Basingstoke and Deane
shire_county	Hampshire
region	South East England
constituency_westminster	North East Hampshire
post_town	HOOK
postcode_district	RG27
postcode_area	RG
dial_code	01256
os_grid_reference	SU695598
website	Stratfield Turgis Parish Meeting
population	91
population_ref	(2021 census)

Stratfield Turgis is a village and civil parish in the Basingstoke and Deane district, in the north-east of the county of Hampshire, England. The parish includes the hamlet of Spanish Green. In 2021 the parish had a population of 91.

History

The name derives from its origins on open land (Old English feld) by the Roman road (Old English stræt) from Silchester to London, and the Turgis family, who held the manor of the de Ports and St. Johns from as early as 1270.

Governance

The village is part of the civil parish of Stratfield Turgis, and is part of the Pamber and Silchester ward of Basingstoke and Deane borough council. The borough council is a Non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council.

Geography

The parish is located on the main A33 between Reading and Basingstoke at . It comprises the hamlets of Spanish Green and Turgis Green together with Stratfield Turgis itself and surrounding outlying farms.

Sport and leisure

Stratfield Turgis & Hartley Wespall Cricket Club play at Turgis Green.

Education

Daneshill School is a preparatory school for boys and girls aged 3 to 13 years old. The school was founded in 1950 in Sherborne St John, under the name of St Salvator's. It moved to the Lutyens-designed Daneshill House in 1954, when it was renamed Daneshill School. In 1973 it moved to Dogmersfield Park, near Odiham; and in 1979 to "Bylands", Stratfield Turgis, its current home.

References

(2008). "Hampshire County Council's legal record of public rights of way in Hampshire".
(2010). "Basingstoke and Deane Wards info".

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