OS grid reference SU712533 Post town HOOK Dialling code 01420 UK parliament constituency Basingstoke | Sovereign state United Kingdom Postcode district GU34 District Basingstoke and Deane | |
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Nately Scures is a small village in the civil parish of Newnham in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire, England. Its nearest large village is Hook, (where at the 2011 Census the population was included) which lies approximately 1.7 miles (2.7 km) north-east from the village.
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Map of Nately Scures, Hook, UK
Governance
The village of Nately Scures is part of the civil parish of Newnham and is part of the Basing ward of Basingstoke and Deane borough council. The borough council is a Non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council.
Religious sites
St. Swithun's was built of flint and rubble around 1175. It is considered to be the best largely unspoilt example of a Norman single-cell apsidal church in England.
Etymology
Hampshire Notes and Queries, Repr. from the Winchester Observer gives the name as meaning 'cattle field'. It is derived from the Anglo Saxon neat ('cattle' or 'beast' -- being a corruption of ne witan, or 'not to know'). Scures is from Anglo Saxon scua ('wood' or 'shade').