Up Nately is a small village in
Hampshire
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, England, located to the south east of
Basingstoke. Its nearest railway station is in
Hook
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, three miles to the east of the village. The
Basingstoke Canal
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From Basingstoke, the canal passes through or near Greywell, North Warnborough, Odiham, ...
runs through the village from the former Penny Bridge (on the Greywell Road) in the west, under Brick Kiln Bridge (Blackstocks Lane), Slades Bridge (Heather Lane) and Eastrop Bridge (Heather Row Lane), and, to the east of the village, through the collapsed
Greywell Tunnel
Greywell Tunnel is a disused tunnel on the Basingstoke Canal near Greywell in Hampshire,
which is now a
biological Site of Special Scientific Interest.
History
Construction of the canal had been authorised by an
Act of Parliament in 1778, ...
.
History
Originally part of the Great Manor of
Mapledurwell
Mapledurwell is a village in Hampshire, England, that is located south east of Basingstoke. The name Mapledurwell means 'maple tree spring.'
History
Recorded in the Domesday Book, the land was held by Anschill for Edward the Confessor. From 1086, ...
, Up Nately was created as a separate estate in the early part of the 12th century, when it was granted to the
Cistercian Abbey of Tiron in France by
Adam de Port, Lord of Mapledurwell and confirmed by
Henry I Henry I may refer to:
876–1366
* Henry I the Fowler, King of Germany (876–936)
* Henry I, Duke of Bavaria (died 955)
* Henry I of Austria, Margrave of Austria (died 1018)
* Henry I of France (1008–1060)
* Henry I the Long, Margrave of the ...
. Tiron sent a colony of
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monks to settle in its new estate, which became
Andwell Priory. As an alien priory with an allegiance to a foreign enemy, it was sequestered by
Edward III. It was bought in 1391 by
William of Wykeham
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,
Bishop of Winchester who then bestowed it on
Winchester College
Winchester College is a public school (fee-charging independent day and boarding school) in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It was founded by William of Wykeham in 1382 and has existed in its present location ever since. It is the oldest of ...
. Remains of the priory can be seen today.
In 1535
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
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, also acquired some land in the village in Heather Row Lane, together with the grant of the manor of Mapledurwell.
In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's
Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Up Nately as:
For many centuries farming has been the dominant activity in the village, although there have been periods of industrial activity such as cloth production in the 15th and 16th century and brick making at the end of the 19th century. There are a number of chalk and sand pits in fields surrounding the village, indicating historic quarrying activity.
Brickmaking
![Arch from Up Nately brickworks](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Arch_from_Up_Nately_brickworks.jpg)
In 1897
Sir Frederick Seager Hunt, a
Conservative Party
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Political parties called The Conservative P ...
politician and distiller, who two years earlier had bought the Basingstoke Canal, invested £20,000 to set up the Hampshire Brick and Tile Company on 32 acres of land in Up Nately. Hunt's aim was to revive trade in the upper reaches of the canal and in particular use the canal to supply bricks from the brickworks to replace the wooden huts at the
Aldershot Garrison. Bricks from Up Nately were also supplied to local builders in towns along the Canal and accounted for half of the traffic in bricks using the canal. To fire the kiln, about fifty tons of coal per week were supplied by barge from Basingstoke.
However, the business did not prove to be viable. Sir Frederick sold his shares in the company and the company went into receivership by 1901. The site was used by the Nately Pottery Company from 1901 to 1908. Some of the brickworks buildings remained until the 1940s and the Kiln Chimney was demolished during the
Second World War
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.
The arches of two kilns and some sheds from the brick works remain in Heather Lane, along with the Brickyard Arm which was a short 100 metre long branch off the main canal where bricks were loaded onto the barges. The name of Brick Kiln Bridge in the village is a legacy of the brickworks.
Governance
In 1880 Up Nately became a civil parish of 1,149 acres. In 1932 it merged, along with its neighbouring parish of
Andwell, with Mapledurwell to form the current
civil parish
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Mapledurwell and Up Natelyand part of the
Basing ward
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Division or unit
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* Prison ward, a division of a penal institution such as a pris ...
of
Basingstoke and Deane borough council
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. The borough council is a
Non-metropolitan district
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of
Hampshire County Council
Hampshire County Council (HCC) is an English council that governs eleven of the thirteen districts geographically located within the ceremonial county of Hampshire. As one of twenty-four county councils in England, it acts as the upper tier of ...
.
Conservation Area
The southern part of the village lies within the Up Nately Conservation Area. This was designated in 1981 by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council in recognition of the special architectural and historic interest of the village.
Local Nature Reserve
![Up Nately Local Nature Reserve](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Up_Nately_Local_Nature_Reserve.jpg)
Since the partial collapse of the Greywell Tunnel in the 1930s, the last five miles of the Basingstoke Canal from the tunnel to Basingstoke has remained isolated from the rest of the canal. Whilst most of this section has been drained, the part between the western end of the Greywell Tunnel and Penny Bridge in Up Nately still has water in it and has been preserved by the Basingstoke Canal Authority as the
Up Nately Local Nature Reserve.
The Reserve, which has an area of 2.83 hectares (6.9 acres) and is part of
Butter Wood Site of Special Scientific Interest, supports the following wildlife:
Coot
Coots are medium-sized water birds that are members of the rail family, Rallidae. They constitute the genus ''Fulica'', the name being the Latin term for "coot". Coots have predominantly black plumage, and—unlike many rails—they are usually ...
,
Moorhen
Moorhens—sometimes called marsh hens—are medium-sized water birds that are members of the rail family (Rallidae). Most species are placed in the genus ''Gallinula'', Latin for "little hen".
They are close relatives of coots. They are of ...
,
Mallard Duck
The mallard () or wild duck (''Anas platyrhynchos'') is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia, and North Africa, and has been introduced species, introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Bra ...
,
Little Grebe
The little grebe (''Tachybaptus ruficollis''), also known as dabchick, is a member of the grebe family of water birds. The genus name is from Ancient Greek ''takhus'' "fast" and ''bapto'' "to sink under". The specific ''ruficollis'' is from Lati ...
,
Ruddy Darter,
Water Vole,
Ransoms
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and
Badgers
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. The Greywell Tunnel is an important hibernation site for bat species including the
Pipistrelle
''Pipistrellus'' is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae and subfamily Vespertilioninae. The name of the genus is derived from the Italian word , meaning "bat" (from Latin "bird of evening, bat").
The size of the genus has been cons ...
,
Natterer and
Daubenton. The rare
Barbastelle bat
The western barbastelle (''Barbastella barbastellus''), also known as the barbastelle or barbastelle bat, is a European bat in the genus ''Barbastella''. This species is found from Portugal to Azerbaijan and from Sweden to Canary Islands, wher ...
has also been recorded there.
Penny Bridge marks the start of
public footpatheastwards along the length of the Canal's former towpath. However the Basingstoke Canal Society, working with local authorities, aims to open up a foot and cycle path to the west which would, as close as possible, follow the route of the canal from Penny Bridge to Basingstoke.
St Stephen's Church
St Stephen's Churchdates from around 1200, with 15th and 19th century alterations and is Grade II* listed.
The church includes a memorial to Alfred James Clark. Clark had joined the Army in 1914. In 1916, the hospital where he had been a patient was bombed. When erected, the memorial was unusual, being the second such one-man memorial in the UK.
[Friends of St Stephen's ''St Stephen's Church Up Nately'']
The altar cloth has a mysterious inscription to the fallen of the Great War. It lists sixteen names of servicemen who are from different regiments, different parts of the country, and who died in different places. The association between them is unclear.
[
The churchyard contains the war graves of Frank Evans and Alan Sidney Woodbridge.WOODBRIDGE, ALAN SIDNEY]
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Further reading
* Friends of St Stephen's ''St Stephen's Church Up Nately'' (church guide, available from the church)
References
External links
Mapledurwell and Up Nately Parish Council
British History Online: Up Nately
Up Nately Conservation Area Appraisal
an
Conservation Area Map
Listed Buildings in Mapledurwell And Up Nately, Hampshire, England
* ''Hampshire Treasures: Volume 2 (Basingstoke and Deane)'' page
an
;St Stephens Church
Stained Glass Windows at St. Stephen Up Nately, Hampshire
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