Welcome
to Hartley Wintney, near Hook, Hampshire, UK.
The present community
of Hartley Wintney was built around the London-Exeter coach
road (now the A30) in the 18th Century. The part timbered
building in the photograph is one of several coaching inns
in the village from that period.
The name recorded
in the 13th century as Hertleye Wynteneye means "the clearing
in the forest where the deer graze by Winta's island". Winta
was probably a Saxon who held an island in the marshes of
the Hart valley where a priory of Cistercian nuns was founded
in 1190.
One of Hartley
Wintney's best known features are the Mildmay Oaks. These
were planted by Lady St John Mildmay in response to the
call, in 1807, by Admiral Collingwood following the Battle
of Trafalgar for landowners to plant Oaks to provide timber
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