Hartley Wintney is a village in the county of Hampshire in England, recorded in the 13th century as Hertleye Wynteneye which means "the clearing in the forest where the deer graze by Winta’s island". Winta was probably a Saxon who owned the island in the marshes where a priory of Cistercian nuns was founded in the middle of the 12th century. Today, the village is in the Hart district council.

Although Roman settlement here before Saxon times cannot be proved, there were Roman settlements not far away at Odiham and Silchester. Before Roman times the area was probably fairly heavily wooded with a lake and a marshy area. A small settlement around a wooden church in the vicinity of St Mary’s Church would possibly have existed in Saxon times. A deer park, which stretched from Odiham to the outskirts of the settlement and to the north, was used for 600 years by Royalty and others for hunting and the wood was used for fuel.

The village would have been included in the Hundred of Odiham in the Domesday Book of 1086. It was part of King Harold’s royal estate at Odiham and after 1066 it became King William’s land.

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@Sue_TMB my parents live in Hartley Wintney & they've got more snow than we have up here in Yorkshire.
issybooevents (Jane Robinson) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:41:18 -0000
@Sue_TMB my parents live in Hartley Wintney & they've got more snow than we have up here in Yorkshire.
Still snowing in Hartley Wintney , North Hampshire, UK. #snowday has been confirmed. BBC news says maybe 2foot 40cm to 50 cm to fall
Suzannehutton (Suzanne Hutton) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:26:18 -0000
Still snowing in Hartley Wintney , North Hampshire, UK. #snowday has been confirmed. BBC news says maybe 2foot 40cm to 50 cm to fall
snowmen of hartley wintney: http://bit.ly/6A7nVz #uksnow
alecmuffett (Alec Muffett) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:21:50 -0000
snowmen of hartley wintney: http://bit.ly/6A7nVz #uksnow
@EmmaK67 http://brizzly.com/pic/YSS it is here in Hartley Wintney, North Hampshire and its GREAT x
Suzannehutton (Suzanne Hutton) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:48:14 -0000
@EmmaK67 http://brizzly.com/pic/YSS it is here in Hartley Wintney, North Hampshire and its GREAT x
#uksnow rg27 7/10 - i have just been out with a ruler, a full 5" / 13cm of snow here in Hartley Wintney
alecmuffett (Alec Muffett) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:13:34 -0000
#uksnow rg27 7/10 - i have just been out with a ruler, a full 5" / 13cm of snow here in Hartley Wintney
New Years Day at the Phoenix Inn, Hartley Wintney: I went to this last year and there http://bit.ly/4ASxjr
rodsnsods (Rods 'n' Sods) Fri, 01 Jan 2010 17:59:05 -0000
New Years Day at the Phoenix Inn, Hartley Wintney: I went to this last year and there http://bit.ly/4ASxjr

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