Middle Wallop

Middle Wallop is a village in the civil parish of Nether Wallop in Hampshire, England, on the A343 road. At the 2011 Census the population was included in the civil parish of Over Wallop. The village has a public house, The George Inn, a petrol station as well as The Wallops Parish Hall.

Middle Wallop
Middle Wallop
Location within Hampshire
Civil parish
District
Shire county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townSTOCKBRIDGE
Postcode districtSO20
Dialling code01264
PoliceHampshire
FireHampshire
AmbulanceSouth Central
UK Parliament

The Wallops

Together the villages of Over Wallop, Middle Wallop and Nether Wallop are known as The Wallops and run in a line roughly North to South following the line of the Wallop Brook, which has its source in Over Wallop.

Middle Wallop airfield

To the East of the villages the area is dominated by the Middle Wallop airfield, home to the Army Air Corps, a branch of the British Army. It supposedly was the site of a battle between certain Vitalinus, possibly Vortigern, and Aurelius Ambrosius.[1]

References

  1. "EBK: Battle of Wallop, Hampshire". www.earlybritishkingdoms.com. Archived from the original on 23 September 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2020.


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