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Population
  
247  253 (2011 Census)

Civil parish
  
Herriard

Country
  
England

Local time
  
Friday 1:33 PM

District
  
Basingstoke and Deane

UK parliament constituency
  
North East Hampshire

OS grid reference
  
SU637523

Region
  
South East

Sovereign state
  
United Kingdom

Shire county
  
Hampshire

Dialling code
  
01256

Herriard

Weather
  
9°C, Wind S at 16 km/h, 97% Humidity

Herriard is a village and civil parish in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest town is Basingstoke, which lies 4.6 miles (7.4 km) north. The village is situated mainly on the A339 road between Alton, and Basingstoke. At the 2001 census it had a population of 247, increasing marginally to 251 at the 2011 Census. It was formerly served by the now-disused Herriard railway station on the Basingstoke and Alton Light Railway.

Contents

Map of Herriard, Basingstoke, UK

Governance

The village of Herriard is part of the civil parish of Herriard and is part of the Upton Grey and the Candovers ward of Basingstoke and Deane borough council. The borough council is a Non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council.

Geography

The parish also contains the village of Southrope and the hamlet of Nashes Green. It borders the Hampshire parishes of Winslade to the north, Tunworth to the north east, Weston Patrick to the east, Lasham to the south and Ellisfield to the west.

Buildings

St. Mary's Church in Herriard was built by Sir Richard de Herriard around 1200. There was a major refurbishment and the western tower was added in 1878 for Francis Jervoise. Herriard House was a Queen Anne mansion demolished in the 1960s. It was the home of the Jervoise family.

Notable residents

  • George Puttenham. The Elizabethan poet lived at Herriard House which was his wife's inheritance. He beat her and had affairs with all their maidservants, impregnating most of them. He also kept a young sex slave at Upton Grey. When two Royal officials came to arrest him, he had his servants tie them up in Herriard churchyard, where he beat them about the head with a foot whipping cane.
  • Economy

    Herriard is home to a number of businesses, such as AVS Fencing Supplies (formerly the Herriard Sawmills site), mixing console manufacturer Audient, and medical communications consultancy Strategen.

    References

    Herriard Wikipedia