[4] The hamlet of Palestine adjoins the railway station settlement, although it is located in the civil parish of Over Wallop.

King Æthelstan issued his first official law code in Grateley in about 930 AD.

[7] Recorded in the early 12th century Quadripartitus text,[8] which referred to a ‘great assembly at Grateley’ (magna synodo apud Greateleyam).

The legestaive assembly and construct of the Grateley law code acted as a manifestation of the peripatetic nature of Anglo-Saxon kingship.

[10] The village has one pub, a thirteenth-century church dedicated to St Leonard, a primary school, a school for children with Asperger syndrome, a railway station, a small business park, a golf driving range, and is surrounded by farmland with ancient footpaths and droveways.