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Latitude: 51.218 / 51°13'4"N
Longitude: -1.5472 / 1°32'49"W
OS Eastings: 431721
OS Northings: 146634
OS Grid: SU317466
Mapcode National: GBR 614.KNS
Mapcode Global: VHC2R.4NF3
Plus Code: 9C3W6F93+64
Entry Name: Hop Growers Fair Booths on Blissimore Hall Acre
Listing Date: 20 April 1993
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1253842
English Heritage Legacy ID: 437155
ID on this website: 101253842
Location: Weyhill, Test Valley, Hampshire, SP11
County: Hampshire
District: Test Valley
Civil Parish: Penton Grafton
Built-Up Area: Weyhill
Traditional County: Hampshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hampshire
Church of England Parish: Weyhill St Michael and All Angels
Church of England Diocese: Winchester
Tagged with: Architectural structure
The following Buildings shall be added:-
PENTON GRAFTON
SU 34 NW WEYHILL ROAD
Weyhill
4/10000 Hop growers fair booths on
Blissimore Hall acre
GV
II
Range of former hop growers fair booths forming an elongated U-shaped
yard with the rear wall fronting Weyhill Road, Rectory Lane, and St.
Michael's and All Angels Churchyard. Early/mid C19. Cob rear wall
with flint plinth to open-fronted booths with timber posts and king
post trusses; slated roofs. These booths, on a piece of land known as
Blissimore Hall Acre, were erected by a consortium of hop growers
called the Farnham Gentlemen, to market their produce. They are the
surviving remnants of Weyhill Fair, one of the most important historic
fairs in the country which is documented in 1225 and continued until
1959. William Cobbett visited the fair several times and made
reference to it and the hop growers in Rural Rides. Thomas Hardy
immortralised Weyhill Fair in The Mayor of Casterbridge, renaming it
Weydon Priors. The booths are also an important survival of permanent
fair booths which are a rare building type.
Listing NGR: SU3195047926
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