Privett
Sign in to saveAlso known as Privett, Hampshire
Privett is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Froxfield and Privett, in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is northwest of Petersfield, just off the A272 road. Its principal feature is Holy Trinity Church, designed by Arthur Blomfield and built at the expense of local landowner, businessman and M.P. William Nicholson. Nicholson was also responsible for building in the village a number of dwellings for workers on his Basing Park estate. In 1931 the parish had a population of 172.
Weather now
cached 1440h ago7-day forecast
via Open-Meteo
Place details
- Locality
- East Hampshire
- Region
- England
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- History
- Governance
- Transport
- References
Privett is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Froxfield and Privett, in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is northwest of Petersfield, just off the A272 road. Its principal feature is Holy Trinity Church, designed by Arthur Blomfield and built at the expense of local landowner, businessman and M.P. William Nicholson. Nicholson was also responsible for building in the village a number of dwellings for workers on his Basing Park estate. In 1931 the parish had a population of 172.
==History== A place called Pryfetesflōd (Privett's River), located in the Weald, is mentioned in the 755 AD entry of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (the story of Cynewulf and Cyneheard), as the place where Sigeberht of Wessex, previously a ruler of Hampshire, was driven off to.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Privett” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations