Ecchinswell is a village in the Basingstoke and Deane district of Hampshire, England.

Ecchinswell Church
Ecchinswell Location within Hampshire
OS grid reference	SU500597
Civil parish	Ecchinswell, Sydmonton and Bishops Green
District	Basingstoke and Deane
Shire county	Hampshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Newbury
Postcode district	RG20
Police	Hampshire
Fire	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Ambulance	South Central
List of places UK England Hampshire 51.333615°N 1.284027°W / 51.333615; -1.284027

Geography

Watership Down, location of Richard Adams' novel of the same name, is just south of Ecchinswell. Ladle Hill on Great Litchfield Down, also lies to the south. Part of the hill is a 10.37 hectares (25.6 acres) biological SSSI, first notified in 1978. The hill has a partially completed Iron Age hill fort on its summit, and the surrounding area is rich in Iron Age tumuli, enclosures, lynchets and field systems. Ladle Hill and Watership Down are easily accessed from the Wayfarer's Walk cross-county footpath that passes through the parish.

Governance

The village of Ecchinswell is part of the civil parish of Ecchinswell, Sydmonton and Bishops Green[1] and is part of the Burghclere, Highclere and St Mary Bourne ward of Basingstoke and Deane borough council.[2] The borough council is a Non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council.

Literature

Nuthanger Farm at Ecchinswell features extensively in Richard Adams' Watership Down.

Notable people

• The potter, Geoffrey Eastop (1921–2014), lived in the village
• Lord Turner of Ecchinswell, former Chairman of the Financial Services Authority and the Committee on Climate Change, has a cottage in Ecchinswell

References

External links

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• Ecchinswell.net

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