The name "Wallop" derives from the Old English words waella and hop, which taken together roughly mean "the valley of springing water".

[2] Nether Wallop contains many old thatched cottages, and has been featured in books and TV programmes as one of the prettiest villages in England.

[3] In particular, Dane Cottage in Five Bells Lane was used as Miss Marple's home in the village of St. Mary Mead for the BBC TV adaptations of the Agatha Christie novels.

The house and many of the surrounding lanes within the village were used as the setting and are commonly seen throughout many of the Miss Marple films.

The church of St Andrew is partly Anglo-Saxon, and fragments of frescoes dating to that period have been discovered.