Ropley is a village and large civil parish in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It has an acreage of, situated 4mi east from New Alresford, with Ropley Dean served by a station just over from the village shops. It is southwest of Alton, just off the A31 road. It lies within the diocese of Winchester.The ancient Pilgrims' Way from Winchester to Canterbury passes through the village. It is distinguished by its general absence of pavements in favour of boundary walls, hedges and mature trees.HistoryIn the Domesday Book Ropley was part of the "Hundred of Bishops Sutton" (or "Ashley"). Ropley is noted as having provided the honey for William the Conqueror's mead.By the 13th century the land was owned by the Gervase family who gave some land to William of Wykeham in the 14th century, who was a Bishop of Winchester and the founder of Winchester College; he later gave land in Ropley to the College. In the 15th century some of the land in Ropley was acquired by Magdalen College, Oxford
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