| Country: | England |
| Static Image Name: | Ecchinswell Church - geograph.org.uk - 60541.jpg |
| Static Image Caption: | Ecchinswell Church |
| Coordinates: | 51.3331°N -1.2844°W |
| Civil Parish: | Ecchinswell, Sydmonton and Bishops Green |
| Shire District: | Basingstoke and Deane |
| Shire County: | Hampshire |
| Region: | South East England |
| Post Town: | Newbury |
| Postcode District: | RG20 |
| Postcode Area: | RG |
| Os Grid Reference: | SU500597 |
Ecchinswell is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Ecchinswell, Sydmonton and Bishops Green,[1] in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire, England. In 1931 the parish had a population of 295.[2]
Watership Down, location of Richard Adams' novel of the same name, is just south of Ecchinswell. Ladle Hill on Great Litchfield Down, also lies to the south. Part of the hill is a 10.37ha biological SSSI, first notified in 1978. The hill has a partially completed Iron Age hill fort on its summit, and the surrounding area is rich in Iron Age tumuli, enclosures, lynchets and field systems. Ladle Hill and Watership Down are easily accessed from the Wayfarer's Walk cross-county footpath that passes through the parish.
The village of Ecchinswell is part of the Burghclere, Highclere and St Mary Bourne ward of Basingstoke and Deane borough council.[3] The borough council is a Non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council. On 1 April 1932 the parish was abolished to form "Ecchinswell and Sydmonton".[4]
Nuthanger Farm at Ecchinswell features extensively in Richard Adams' Watership Down.