Country: | England |
Static Image: | War Memorial, Froxfield Green - geograph.org.uk - 1332187.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | War Memorial, Froxfield Green, erected 1921 |
Coordinates: | 51.025°N -0.998°W |
Official Name: | Froxfield Green |
Civil Parish: | Froxfield and Privett |
Shire District: | East Hampshire |
Shire County: | Hampshire |
Region: | South East England |
Constituency Westminster: | East Hampshire |
Post Town: | Petersfield |
Postcode District: | GU32 |
Postcode Area: | GU |
Dial Code: | 01730 |
Os Grid Reference: | SU703256 |
Froxfield Green (formerly Froxfield) is a village in the civil parish of Froxfield and Privett, in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 3miles north-west of Petersfield, and lies just north of the A272 road.
Earthworks which run north–south and pass along the western edge of the modern village may be an Anglo-Saxon defensive work, or mark a tribal boundary. The remains of a Roman and Romano-British site lie a short distance south-east of the village.
Froxfield is not mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book; the area is probably included land at Menes which later became the large East Meon estate.
Although the settlement was documented as Froxfield Green in 1908,[1] Ordnance Survey maps published in 1939[2] and earlier identified it as Froxfield. Since at least 1960, maps show Froxfield Green.[3] The civil parish in which the village lies was called Froxfield until the 2010s, when the name Froxfield and Privett came into use.[4]
On 1 April 1932 the parish of Privett was merged with Froxfield.[5] On 9 May 2013 the merged parish was renamed from "Froxfield" to "Froxfield and Privett".[6] In 1931 the parish of Froxfield (prior to the merge) had a population of 693.[7]
The local primary school, Froxfield CE School,[8] is almost a mile to the north-east at High Cross. The nearest railway station is at Petersfield.
The small church of St Peter-on-the-Green was built in 1886, replacing a Saxon church on the same site which had been demolished in 1861. In simple Early English style, it is built in flint rubble with stone dressings, and has a western bell-turret which houses a bell dated 1766.[9] Today the church is part of the benefice of Steep and Froxfield with Privett,[10] which also includes St Peter's church at High Cross (built in 1862, incorporating three Norman arches and columns from the old church at the Green).