Ropley

There are numerous old buildings in the village: {| class="wikitable" !Name!!Grade!!Century of oldest part |- |St Peter's Church of England Church |Grade II |11th or 12th |- |The Forge |Grade II |15th with later extended Flemish bond red brick walls. |- |Smugglers |Grade unknown |15th with successive alterations and renovations through each century |- |Soame's Farm |Grade unknown |15th |- |The Old Farmhouse |Grade unknown |16th |- |The Old Manor House |Grade II |16th with later |- |Town Street Farmhouse |Grade II |16th |- |Dover Cottage |Grade II |16th |- |Ropley House |Grade II* |16th additions in 18th |- |Charlwood House |Unlisted |17th shown on a map of 1635 |- |Fordes |Grade II |17th |-…

In the Domesday Book of 1086, Ropley was part of the "Hundred of Bishops Sutton" (or "Ashley") and as a result part of Bishops Sutton's or Sudtone entry. Ropley is supposed to have provided the honey for William the Conqueror's mead, although there is no evidence for this, and is likely a myth of later creation. Ropley was a comparatively large settlement for the area and by the 14th century has outgrown the population of Bishop's Sutton. This is mostly due to the large number of remote hamlets that the parish boundaries of Ropley encompassed such as North Street, South Street and Charlwood. By the 15th century there was a dramatic local shift away from arable to pasture farming,…