Grateley, Hampshire
Historical Description
Grateley, a parish in Hants, near the boundary with Wilts, 6½ miles WSW of Andover. It has a station on the L. & S.W.R. 73 miles from London, and a post office under Andover; money order office, Amport; telegraph office, Grateley railway station. Acreage, 1551; population, 221, A village once stood here which dated from the Saxon times,. was the place of a witenagemote under Athelstane in 928, and is traditionally said to have had five churches. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; gross value,, £270 with residence. The church is Early English and good, and has some fragments of fine Early English stained glass, which after removal from Salisbury Cathedral were given to Grate-ley Church in 1787.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Hampshire | |
| Ecclesiastical parish | Grately St. Leonard | |
| Hundred | Andover | |
| Poor Law union | Andover |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Civil Registration
For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Grateley from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Grately (St. Leonard))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Grateley are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Hampshire newspapers online:
- Portsmouth Evening News
- Hampshire Telegraph
- Hampshire Advertiser
- Hampshire Chronicle
- Aldershot Military Gazette
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, & 1622-34 is available to view on the Heraldry page.