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Damerham
Sign in to saveDamerham is a rural village and civil parish in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England, near Fordingbridge. The area has notable Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows. It was the site of an Anglo-Saxon religious community, mentioned in the will of Alfred the Great. By the time of Domesday Book (1086), Damerham was a major settlement in the possession of Glastonbury Abbey. The village has a riverside mill and a Norman church.
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Key facts
- UK place.country
- England
- UK place.official_name
- Damerham
- UK place.population
- 519
- UK place.population_ref
- 508 (2011 Census including Lopshill and Lower Daggons)
- UK place.static_image_name
- Damerham, half-timbered cottages - geograph.org.uk - 1484981.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Damerham
- UK place.shire_district
- New Forest
- UK place.shire_county
- Hampshire
- UK place.region
- South East England
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- New Forest West
- UK place.post_town
- FORDINGBRIDGE
- UK place.postcode_district
- SP6
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- civil parish
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- +508
- Image
- Damerham, half-timbered cottages - geograph.org.uk - 1484981.jpg
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- Geography
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- Prehistory
- Domesday
- Later history
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Damerham is a rural village and civil parish in the New Forest district of Hampshire, England, near Fordingbridge. The area has notable Neolithic and Bronze Age barrows. It was the site of an Anglo-Saxon religious community, mentioned in the will of Alfred the Great. By the time of Domesday Book (1086), Damerham was a major settlement in the possession of Glastonbury Abbey. The village has a riverside mill and a Norman church.
==Geography== Damerham lies in the valley of the Allen River, a minor tributary of the Hampshire Avon. The river flows north-west to south-east across the parish, and becomes the Ashford Water as it continues east to join the Avon just below Fordingbridge.