Rotherwick
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| Rotherwick | |
|---|---|
 Rotherwick Church tower | |
  Rotherwick Location within Hampshire | |
| Area | 8.22 km2 (3.17 sq mi) |
| Population | 522 (2011 Census, excluding 42 at hotel(s))[1] |
| • Density | 64/km2 (170/sq mi) |
| OS grid reference | SU7156 |
| District | |
| Shire county | |
| Region | |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | HOOK |
| Postcode district | RG27 |
| Dialling code | 01256 |
| Police | Hampshire and Isle of Wight |
| Fire | Hampshire and Isle of Wight |
| Ambulance | South Central |
| UK Parliament | |
Rotherwick is a village and civil parish in the Hart district of Hampshire, England.
It is briefly limited to the east and the west by the Whitewater and the Lyde, both tributaries of the Loddon. A curved lane, becoming Reading Road with footways runs approximately 1.5 miles (2.4 km) on fairly flat terrain from the nucleated village centre to the high street, which is the old A30 trunk route, of Hook a town/village. Beyond this point is further housing and then Hook railway station, a frequently served minor stop on the South Western Main Line.
A large minority of the land (about half of which being Rotherwick's Black Wood of about 1 square kilometre (0.39 sq mi)) is forested and sandy in composition, as with Stratfield Saye remnant forest to the north-west and Swinley Forest in the near part of East Berkshire, having mixtures of sands, sandstones, occasional peat beds and gravels associated with the Bagshot Formation.
