Four Marks, Hampshire - <>

Four Marks is a village and civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 4.4mi southwest of Alton, on the A31 road. It is situated on the borders of the South Downs National Park on the Pilgrims' Way that leads from Winchester to Canterbury. Just northeast of the village, on the edge of Chawton Park Wood, is one of Hampshire's highest points, Red Hill at 211m.HistoryFour Marks was originally settled by veterans of the Crimean War, who were allocated plots for their smallholdings, and was the site of a telegraph.According to Bartholomew’s Gazetteer, the village of Four Marks is the only so named place in the United Kingdom.The first mention of it appears in a document c.1550, albeit spelt differently. The heading of the page can be translated as ‘Perambulation of the Manor of Alresford’ and consists of a description of the boundaries. The reference to Four Marks translates roughly as “a certain vacant piece of land called Fowrem’kes near Bookmere and so called Fowrem’kes because iiii adjoining tithings abut there namely the tithings of Medsted Ropley Faryngdon & Chawton”. There were thus borders extending in four directions, called a quadripoint.

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