Froxfield Green | |
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![]() War Memorial, Froxfield Green, erected 1921
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Location within
Hampshire | |
OS grid reference | SU703256 |
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Shire county | |
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Country | England |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
Post town | Petersfield |
Postcode district | GU32 |
Dialling code | 01730 |
Police | Hampshire and Isle of Wight |
Fire | Hampshire and Isle of Wight |
Ambulance | South Central |
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Froxfield Green (formerly Froxfield) is a village in the civil parish of Froxfield and Privett, in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 3 miles (5 km) north-west of Petersfield, and lies just north of the A272 road.
Earthworks which run north–south and pass along the western edge of the modern village may be an Anglo-Saxon defensive work, or mark a tribal boundary. [2] The remains of a Roman and Romano-British site lie a short distance south-east of the village. [3]
Froxfield is not mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book; the area is probably included land at Menes which later became the large East Meon estate. [4]
Although the settlement was documented as Froxfield Green in 1908, [4] Ordnance Survey maps published in 1939 [5] and earlier identified it as Froxfield. Since at least 1960, maps show Froxfield Green. [6] The civil parish in which the village lies was called Froxfield [4] until the 2010s, when the name Froxfield and Privett came into use. [7]
On 1 April 1932 the parish of Privett was merged with Froxfield. [8] On 9 May 2013 the merged parish was renamed from "Froxfield" to "Froxfield and Privett". [9] In 1931 the parish of Froxfield (prior to the merge) had a population of 693. [10]
The local primary school, Froxfield CE School, [11] is almost a mile to the north-east at High Cross. The nearest railway station is at Petersfield.
The small church of St Peter-on-the-Green was built in 1886, replacing a Saxon church on the same site which had been demolished in 1861. In simple Early English style, it is built in flint rubble with stone dressings, [12] and has a western bell-turret which houses a bell dated 1766. [13] Today the church is part of the benefice of Steep and Froxfield with Privett, [14] which also includes St Peter's church at High Cross (built in 1862, incorporating three Norman arches and columns from the old church at the Green). [15]