to Cassandra, from Steventon, "We met with no adventures at all in our Journey yesterday except that our Trunk had once nearly slipt off, & we were obliged to stop at Hartley to have our wheels greazed." - Jane Austen, Saturday 27-Sunday 28 October 1798
Hartley Wintney is 9.5 miles or 15 kilometers west of Basingstoke.
Author Adelle Bradford posted this picture and wrote the following about Harley Wintney:
“The present community of Hartley Wintney was built around the London-Exeter coach road (now the A30) in the 18th Century. The part timbered building in the photograph is one of several coaching inns in the village from that period. It is called the Lamb Hotel, and I managed to reside there for a few days.
“The name recorded in the 13th century as Hertleye Wynteneye means ‘the clearing in the forest where the deer graze by Winta's island’. Winta was probably a Saxon who held an island in the marshes of the Hart valley where a priory of Cistercian nuns was founded in 1190. One of Hartley Wintney's best known features are the Mildmay Oaks. These were planted by Lady St John Mildmay in response to the call, in 1807, by Admiral Collingwood following the Battle of Trafalgar for landowners to plant Oaks to provide timber for Naval ships.”
I hope you enjoyed your day today!
Terrie
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