North Gorley

North Gorley
North Gorley
Shire county	Hampshire;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Fordingbridge
Postcode district	SP6
Dialling code	01425
Police	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Fire	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	New Forest West;
	List of places UK England Hampshire 50°54′08″N 1°46′24″W / 50.9023°N 1.7732°W

North Gorley is a hamlet in the New Forest National Park of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Fordingbridge, which lies approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) north of the hamlet.

Location

The hamlet of North Gorley sits on the western boundary of the

tea rooms in the summer months.^[2]

History

The name Gorley means "triangular wood/clearing".

Dissolution, with Freren Court to Robert White, to whom it belonged in 1564, from which date it followed the descent of Rockford, being merged in that manor after 1634–5.^[4]

North Gorley was, unlike South Gorley, in the parish of

ecclesiastical parish of Hyde,^[4] and it is now part of the civil parish

of Hyde.

To the east of North Gorley on Gorley Common was the site of an Iron Age promontory hillfort called Gorley Hill. Much of the site was destroyed in the 1950s and 60s when the Common's new owners carried out large-scale gravel extraction works.^[5]

Notes

^ The Royal Oak Gorley
^ Little Mere Restaurant
^ Burgate, Old Hampshire Gazetteer
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Victoria County History of Hampshire: Fordingbridge
^ "Hampshire Treasures Volume 5 (New Forest) Page 174". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2011.

External links

Media related to North Gorley at Wikimedia Commons

[1] The Royal Oak Gorley

[2] Little Mere Restaurant

[ohg-3] Burgate, Old Hampshire Gazetteer

[vch-4] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Victoria County History of Hampshire: Fordingbridge

[5] "Hampshire Treasures Volume 5 (New Forest) Page 174". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2011.

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