Petersfield is a market town and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is north of Portsmouth. The town has its own railway station on the Portsmouth Direct line, the mainline rail link connecting Portsmouth and London. Situated below the northern slopes of the South Downs, Petersfield lies wholly within the South Downs National Park. The town is on the crossroads of well-used north–south (formerly the A3 road which now bypasses the town) and east–west routes (today the A272 road) and it grew as a coach stop on the Portsmouth to London route. Petersfield is twinned with Barentin in France, and Warendorf in Germany.

History

Petersfield Heath's burial mounds may be up to 4,000 years old; their distribution is mainly to the east and south east of the Heath. These are considered to be one of the more important lowland barrow groups in this country. The barrows indicate that the area of the Heath was occupied by people who may have come to regard this area as sacred to their religion. As yet no trace has been confirmed for the dwellings of these people as the structures would have been wooden but

Petersfield Museum Petersfield Museum and Art Gallery is a local museum in the small town of Petersfield in Hampshire, England. Petersfield Museum Limited is a registered charity. Location The museum is now located in the Old Police Station on St Peter's Road, ...

hosts a community project to throw more light on this period of history. King William III Statue2, Petersfield

The town was founded during the 12th century by William Fitz Robert, 2nd Earl of Gloucester, later chartered by his widow, Hawise de Beaumont, and confirmed by charter in 1198 from "John, Count of Mortain" (later to be

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). In 1415 King Henry V granted the burgesses of Petersfield freedom from toll, stallage, picage, pannage, murage, and pontage throughout the realm of England. All charters are preserved in the archive files at Petersfield Town Council. The town grew in prosperity due to its position on frequently travelled routes, local sheep farming, and cottage industries including leather and cloth. There were weekly markets in the town square for sheep, horse and cattle trading, and two annual fairs, in June (on the feast of St Peter and St Paul) and November (on the feast of St Andrew). An autumn fair which began in the early 19th century was held in October on The Heath, called "The Taro Fair". The town's market square has an 18th-century statue of King William III by Henry Cheere. The king is mounted and the statue is on an engraved plinth. It is one of only five statues of William in the United Kingdom outside Northern Ireland (the others being in Glasgow,

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and Bristol) and, as such, attracts bands of marching

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in mid-July to commemorate William's victory at the Battle of the Boyne.

Geography

Petersfield is situated in the valley of the Western Rother, on the Lower Greensand at the northern edge of the South Downs. The town lies at the western end of the Greensand Ridge, a sandstone ridge running through Hampshire, Surrey and Kent. The town is surrounded on all sides by farmed countryside, with the South Downs south of the town, the Hampshire Downs to the west, and forested hills (Durford Wood) to the north east. The town is a centre for exploring the South Downs National Park. Close to the town and situated on the South Downs is

Queen Elizabeth Country Park Queen Elizabeth Country Park is a large country park situated on the South Downs in southern England. It is located on the A3 road three miles south of Petersfield, Hampshire and lies within the South Downs National Park. The park contains 1,400 ...

, which incorporates

Butser Hill Butser Hill is a hill and nature reserve in Hampshire, England. South-west of Petersfield, it is a biological and geological Site of Special Scientific Interest. It is a national nature reserve and a Special Area of Conservation. Part of it i ...

(270 metres), and has a variety of scenery including chalk hills, beech woodland and pine forest. The

Hangers Way Hangers Way is a footpath through Hampshire, England from Alton railway station to Queen Elizabeth Country Park where it meets the South Downs Way National Trail. The name Hanger comes from the Old English word ''hangra'', meaning a steeply ...

footpath starts from the country park, goes to Buriton, through Petersfield and in to Alton. On the south east side of the town is Petersfield Heath, of heathland including woodland, grassland, a pond, and a picnic and recreation area. Petersfield Heath is a Site of Nature Conservation Interest (SNCI). It also contains 21 Bronze Age barrows which have resulted in the site being given Scheduled Ancient Monument status. Heathland is very rare throughout Europe and Petersfield Heath is a typical heathland mosaic of micro habitats. Across the site are sandy heath and acid heath areas, grassland and scrub which gives the area diverse zones for insects, reptiles, birds and small mammals. Petersfield Heath is at one end of "

The Serpent Trail The Serpent Trail is a long distance footpath. It runs from Haslemere to Petersfield, Hampshire, Petersfield, which are 11 miles apart in a straight line, by a route which is designed to join up the many heathland areas on greensand in the ...

", a walk through heath and downland of Hampshire and West Sussex to

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Attractions

Fairs and festivals

On the nearest week-end to 6 October every year the Taro Fair is held on Petersfield Heath, a reminder of cattle fairs that were held annually until the 1950s. It is now a fun fair. ("Tarw" is the Welsh shout by the herders for "Bull"; pronounced "Taro" in English). Free festivals are held throughout the year. The Petersfield Spring Festival over the May Bank Holiday weekend, the Petersfield Summer Festival over the August Bank Holiday weekend and the Petersfield Christmas Festival Market on the first Sunday in December.

Markets

Petersfield's

market square The market square (or sometimes, the market place) is a Town square, square meant for trading, in which a market is held. It is an important feature of many towns and cities around the world.Farmers' markets. Stallholders and farmers from Petersfield's French twin town Barentin visit Petersfield and hold a ''French market''.

Gardens

In the High Street is the physic garden, which is a recreation of a 17th-century herb garden. It is open to the public nearly every day of the year. Next to the Red Lion public house is the small Charles Dickens garden. Petersfield has a small volunteer-run community garden, 'The Good Life (Petersfield) Community Garden', situated on the edge of the town next to Sheet railway crossing; the garden is open to members (membership is free).

Arts and institutions

Petersfield has an Arts and Crafts Society which was formed in 1934. One of the founder members was the artist

Flora Twort Flora Caroline Twort (24 June 1893 – 1985) was an English painter who specialised in watercolours and pastels of the scenes and people of Petersfield, Hampshire. Twort was born in Yeovil, Somerset; her parents were Albert Samuel Twort a ...

. PACS holds regular demonstrations and workshops and also holds a yearly exhibition in the Petersfield Festival Hall.

Theatre

Petersfield's Festival Hall shows plays and concerts during the year. Petersfield Youth Theatre was formed in 1990 and performs annually at the Festival Hall, as well as delivering projects throughout the year. The Artistic Director is Nik Ashton, the Associate Director of Matilda the Musical. Winton Players was formed in 1947 and is one of the longest running Amateur Dramatics Societies in Petersfield. They are perhaps best known for their yearly pantomime which takes places at the Festival Hall. The Petersfield Shakespeare Festival takes place every July in the grounds of Bedales School in

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. Its productions are professionally staged and are augmented with performers from the local community. The Artistic Director is theatre director Jake Smith. The Petersfield Musical Festival began in 1901 and is still held annually in the town's Festival Hall.

Museums

Petersfield has one museum, run by the

Trust. It is situated in the town's old courthouse and police station. Within it are the

Gallery, the Bedales Historic costume collection, which consists of over 1,000 pieces dating from 1720, and the Edward Thomas collection. The museum also exhibits social-history collections made up from maps, photographs, archives, oral history and artefacts related to the history of the town. Exhibitions are sometimes also held at the Festival Hall, St Peter's Church, and the Physic Garden. Petersfield was once home to the world's first Teddy Bear Museum, which opened in 1984. It closed at the end of 2006, and is now a private house.

Youth club

The King's Arms is a youth club situated near the town centre, started by Petersfield Area Churches Together (PACT), a charitable Christian organisation. The Kings Arms now runs independently.

Cinema

Petersfield had a 700-seat cinema, the Savoy, that opened in the late 1930s. During the 1970s its use converted to a Bingo Hall before closure in January 1985. The building subsequently saw use as a nightclub from May 1985 for some years and it was demolished in May 2008.

Religion

The parish church of

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, after which the town is named, is the

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church of

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origins in the town centre, The Square. Other churches include Methodist (Station Road), Catholic (St Laurence's, Station Road) and United Reformed Church (College Street). The Evangelical fellowship meets at the Herne Farm Leisure Centre on the eponymous estate, the Religious Society of Friends in the Voluntary Centre, High Street, The Salvation Army in Swan Street and Life Church Petersfield, formerly Petersfield Christian Fellowship, is in Chapel Street.

Sport

Sports venues include the ''Taro Centre'', a leisure centre containing 3x swimming pools, squash courts, gymnasium, a sauna, steam room and other facilities. The town has tennis courts (both public and members only), an open-air pool, a number of playing fields and a golf club. Petersfield has clubs and teams for sports.

Petersfield Town F.C. Petersfield Town Football Club are an English football club based in Petersfield, Hampshire, England. The club is affiliated to the Hampshire Football Association, and is a FA Charter Standard Community Club. They are currently members of the ...

plays in the Wessex League. Several players have gone on to professional sporting careers, such as footballer Maik Taylor, rugby player

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and more recently Calum Chambers who plays for Aston Villa and has been called up for England as well. The town has a Triathlon Club. Petersfield has cycling groups including a local CTC group and The Petersfield Mountain Bikers.

Government

Before the creation of the East Hampshire constituency in 1983, the town had been represented through the Petersfield constituency. Petersfield is now part of the parliamentary

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of East Hampshire. Its Member of Parliament (MP) is

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, a member of the

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. The East Hampshire District Council (EHDC) offices are in Petersfield. Petersfield Cemetery, situated in Ramshill, was opened in 1857.

Transport

Petersfield railway station is on the Portsmouth Direct Line between London and Portsmouth. A branch line to Midhurst closed in 1955. The main station buildings date from the opening of the line in 1859 and are of a "town" type. Petersfield stood at a major crossroads until the A3 London to Portsmouth road was bypassed to the west of the town. The A272 bypasses the town via the A3 and a link road to

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on its route between

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, Hampshire's

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, and Heathfield, East Sussex.

Schools

State schools

The local state secondary school is

The Petersfield School The Petersfield School (TPS) is located in Petersfield, Hampshire, in southern England. The school opened on 20 June 1958 and remains the only state-funded secondary school in Petersfield. It received Arts College status in September 2004, and ...

, usually referred to as 'TPS'. Primary schools are Petersfield Infant School, Sheet Primary School and Herne Junior School. A number of other local primary schools (Langrish, East Meon, West Meon, Steep and Buriton) feed into the Petersfield secondary schools. Petersfield lacks a state-sector sixth-form. Pupils normally continue their education at

Havant and South Downs College HSDC is a Further education college located in Waterlooville, Hampshire, England. The college was formed on 1 August 2017 following a merger of South Downs College and Havant Sixth Form College. The College subsequently merged with Alton Colleg ...

, Bohunt sixth form or

Alton College HSDC Alton, formerly known as Alton College, is located in Alton, Hampshire, England. In addition to offering A Levels, the College provides an adult education service to the local population. It was built in 1978 and was one of the first institu ...

Independent schools

The town and the surrounding villages are home to several independent schools.

Churcher's College Churcher's College is an independent, fee-charging day school for girls and boys, founded in 1722. The Senior School (ages 11–18) is in the market town of Petersfield, Hampshire with the Junior School and Nursery (ages 2 years, 9 months–11) ...

is in Petersfield, and counts

and Tiny Rowland amongst its former pupils.

Ditcham Park School Ditcham Park School is a co-educational, independent school in the civil parish of Buriton, near Petersfield, in the English county of Hampshire. Location The school and its grounds are on the southern spur of Oakham Hill (202 m), one of the ...

is just outside the town, and Bedales School is in the neighbouring village of

. The former Moreton House School in the town centre was bought by Churcher's College in 1993 to become Churcher's College Junior School, but it soon outgrew these premises and subsequently relocated to Liphook. The old Moreton House school site was converted to housing.

Local media

ITV Meridian is the local

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television franchise and viewers see the South version of BBC One. Services are received from the

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was the local radio station for the area until 2010 when it merged with Kestrel FM from Basingstoke. It became The Breeze in December 2012. That station was closed in September 2020 and replaced by a national service, Greatest Hits Radio. A local volunteer group tested the potential for a non-profit community radio service in January 2019 and began making local speech podcasts that year. In August 2020 it started a 24 hour local radio service for Petersfield called Petersfield's Shine Radio. The service broadcasts online. ITV News Chief Correspondent

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is among the project's supporters. Petersfield has three weekly newspapers, The Petersfield Messenger, Petersfield Post and Petersfield Herald. There is a monthly community magazine, Life in Petersfield.

Commerce, business, industry

There is employment in shops and offices in the town centre, and farms in nearby villages, while other people commute to London and Portsmouth. Light industry tends to be concentrated on the Bedford Road estate on the west side of Petersfield, including Whitman Laboratories (part of Estée Lauder). In 2007 the Norwegian-owned oil-supply giant

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Ltd added an engineering office in addition to their UK head office in Petersfield. Rubber products were manufactured in the town from 1919 to the 1980s, making parts for footwear, and in the 1930s sets of interlocking bricks as construction toys, marketed as

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, pre-dating the plastic versions created by

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Notable people

William Cowper (c.1666-1709), anatomist, Surgeon William Cowper (c. 1666 – 1709), who gave his name to

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, was born in Petersfield.

John Goodyer John Goodyer (1592–1664) was a botanist who lived in south-east Hampshire, England, all his life. He amassed a large collection of botanical texts which were bequeathed to Magdalen College, Oxford, and translated a number of classical texts ...

(botanist),

Thomas Horder, 1st Baron Horder Thomas Jeeves Horder, 1st Baron Horder, (7 January 1871 – 13 August 1955) was a British physician best known for his appointments as physician-in-ordinary to Kings Edward VII, Georges V and VI, and extra physician to Queen Elizabeth II. He ...

(Royal physician), Stuart Piggott (

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), Professor

David Wands David Wands is Professor of Cosmology at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, in the University of Portsmouth. He was educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School, Amersham, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he read Natura ...

(cosmologist) and

John Worlidge John Worlidge or John Woolridge (1640–1700) was a noted English agriculturalist, who lived in Petersfield, Hampshire, England. He was considered a great expert on rural affairs, and one of the first British agriculturalists to discuss the import ...

( agriculturalist) have links to the town. Actors Jamie Campbell Bower, Arthur Brough, Tamsin Egerton, Ellis Jones,

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and Miranda Hart were all born or live in Petersfield, as are the BBC Radio 4's soap opera '' The Archers'' actors Charles Collingwood ( Brian Aldridge) and

Edward Kelsey Edward Harry Kelsey (4 June 193023 April 2019) was an English actor. He was best known for voicing the role of Joe Grundy for 34 years in ''The Archers'' on BBC Radio 4 and for voicing various other characters on television. Early Life and ca ...

(

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). Sir

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and his wife are buried in Petersfield. In the music world, opera director

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, tenor Wilfred Brown, Sir

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and composer

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have connections to the town; Mark Owen of Take That lives in Petersfield. Children's author Michelle Magorian lives in Petersfield. Author

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(1911–2006) was born there and John Wyndham (1903–1969), who wrote ''

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'', lived in the town. Vice Admiral Sir

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(1972) and Sir Percy Wyn-Harris, mountaineer and Governor of The Gambia (1979) died in Petersfield. Victoria Cross holder Commander

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, killed at the

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, was born in Petersfield. From the citation: The Right Reverend Arthur Chandler,

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, retired to Petersfield where he died in 1939. The Right Reverend

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, Bishop of Lincoln, was vicar of Petersfield from 1991 to 1999. In the sporting world, John Small, shopkeeper, cobbler, and Hambledon cricketer is buried in the churchyard of St Peter's. Footballer Calum Chambers was born in Petersfield in 1995. John Westwood, a notable football fan, lives in the town and is a partner in Petersfield Bookshop, which has two Royal Warrants and celebrated its centenary in 2018.

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, known for streaking at Twickenham in 1982, was working at the bookshop at the time.

Twin Towns

Petersfield is twinned with: * Barentin, France (since 1992). * Warendorf, Germany (since 2006).

References

External links

East Hampshire District Council

Petersfield Area Historical Society (researching local history)

Historical information and sources on GENUKI

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