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51.025type:city(500)_region:GB|display=inline,title}}|official_name= Froxfield Green|population= |civil_parish= Froxfield and Privett|shire_district= East Hampshire|shire_county= Hampshire|region= South East EnglandEast Hampshire (UK Parliament constituency)>East Hampshire|post_town= Petersfield|postcode_district= GU32|postcode_area= GU|dial_code= 01730|os_grid_reference= SU703256}}Froxfield Green (formerly Froxfield) is a village in the civil parish of Froxfield and Privett, in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is {{Convert|3|mi|km|0}} north-west of Petersfield, and lies just north of the A272 road.

History

Earthworks which run north–south and pass along the western edge of the modern village may be an Anglo-Saxon defensive work, or mark a tribal boundary.{{Historic England research records|mnumber=242944|desc=Froxfield Entrenchments|access-date=14 January 2024|fewer-links=yes}} The remains of a Roman and Romano-British site lie a short distance south-east of the village.{{Historic England research records|mnumber=242975|desc=Earthwork remains of a Romano-British defended settlement|access-date=14 January 2024|fewer-links=yes}}Froxfield is not mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book; the area is probably included land at Menes which later became the large East Meon estate.Although the settlement was documented as Froxfield Green in 1908,BOOK,www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol3/pp76-77, A History of the County of Hampshire, Volume 3, 1908, University of London, Page, William, William Page (historian), Victoria County History, 76-77, Parishes: Froxfield, 4 January 2024, British History Online, Ordnance Survey maps published in 1939WEB, 1939, Ordnance Survey One-inch map, Sheet 132,maps.nls.uk/view/239260384, 14 January 2024, National Library of Scotland, and earlier identified it as Froxfield. Since at least 1960, maps show Froxfield Green.WEB, 1960, Ordnance Survey One-inch map, Sheet 181,maps.nls.uk/view/91577514, 14 January 2024, National Library of Scotland, The civil parish in which the village lies was called Froxfield until the 2010s, when the name Froxfield and Privett came into use.WEB, 9 May 2013, Annual Meeting,easthants.moderngov.co.uk/Data/Council/20130509/Minutes/$DOMO98CGU5.doc.pdf, 4 January 2024, East Hampshire District Council, 2, On 1 April 1932 the parish of Privett was merged with Froxfield.WEB,visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10219097, Relationships and changes Froxfield CP/Ch through time, A Vision of Britain through Time, 21 January 2024, On 9 May 2013 the merged parish was renamed from “Froxfield” to “Froxfield and Privett”.WEB,www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/hampshire.html, Hampshire Registration District, UKBMD, 21 January 2024, In 1931 the parish of Froxfield (prior to the merge) had a population of 693.WEB,visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10219097/cube/TOT_POP, Population statistics Froxfield CP/Ch through time, A Vision of Britain through Time, 21 January 2024,

Amenities

(File:St Peter-on-the-Green Church, Staple Ash Lane, Froxfield Green (NHLE Code 1237145) (July 2019) (11).JPG|thumb|Church of St Peter-on-the-Green)The local primary school, Froxfield CE School,WEB, Froxfield CE School,froxfield.hants.sch.uk/, 2024-01-14, en-US, is almost a mile to the north-east at High Cross. The nearest railway station is at Petersfield.The small church of St Peter-on-the-Green was built in 1886, replacing a Saxon church on the same site which had been demolished in 1861. In simple Early English style, it is built in flint rubble with stone dressings,{{National Heritage List for England|num=1237145|desc=Church of St Peter on the Green|access-date=14 January 2024|fewer-links=yes}} and has a western bell-turret which houses a bell dated 1766.WEB, Froxfield, S Peter on the Green,dove.cccbr.org.uk/tower/20244, 14 January 2024, Dove’s Guide for Church Bell Ringers, Today the church is part of the benefice of Steep and Froxfield with Privett,WEB, St Peter-on-the-Green,www.achurchnearyou.com/church/16870/more-information/, 14 January 2024, A Church Near You, The Archbishops’ Council, which also includes St Peter’s church at High Cross (built in 1862, incorporating three Norman arches and columns from the old church at the Green).{{National Heritage List for England|num=1264247|desc=Church of St Peter|access-date=14 January 2024|fewer-links=yes}}

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