Country: | England |
Static Image Name: | All Saints', Stratfield Turgis - geograph.org.uk - 175431.jpg |
Static Image Caption: | The deconsecrated All Saints' Church, Stratfield Turgis |
Coordinates: | 51.3319°N -1.001°W |
Official Name: | Stratfield Turgis |
Civil Parish: | Stratfield Turgis |
Shire District: | Basingstoke and Deane |
Shire County: | Hampshire |
Region: | South East England |
Constituency Westminster: | North East Hampshire |
Post Town: | HOOK |
Postcode District: | RG27 |
Postcode Area: | RG |
Dial Code: | 01256 |
Os Grid Reference: | SU695598 |
Website: | Stratfield Turgis Parish Meeting |
Stratfield Turgis is a small village and civil parish in the north-east of the English county of Hampshire.
The name of Stratfield Turgis derives from its origins on open land (Old English feld) by the Roman road (Old English stræt) from Silchester to London, and the Turgis family, who held the manor of the de Ports and St. Johns from as early as 1270.
The village of Stratfield Turgis is part of the civil parish of Stratfield Turgis,[1] and is part of the Pamber and Silchester ward of Basingstoke and Deane borough council.[2] The borough council is a Non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council. According to the Post Office at the 2011 Census the population was included in the civil parish of Hartley Wespall.
Stratfield Turgis is located on the main A33 between Reading and Basingstoke at 51.3333°N -1°W. It comprises the hamlets of Spanish Green and Turgis Green together with Stratfield Turgis itself and surrounding outlying farms.
Stratfield Turgis & Hartley Wespall Cricket Club play at Turgis Green.