It is served by a station on the Mid Hants Railway heritage line at Ropley Dean, just over 1 mile (1.6 km) from the village shops.

It is distinguished by its general absence of pavements in favour of boundary walls, hedges and mature trees.

[3] Ropley holds an annual Boxing Day walk, and a pram race on the spring bank holiday in May.

Ropley has seen human activity and presence since the Lower Palaeolithic evidenced by a number of handaxes collected in the parish over the last few decades.

Additionally a large number of Early Bronze Age barrows can be found in the parish, suggesting a community somewhere in the vicinity.

It seems one, or possibly several roman roads passed through the village the largest of which was the main thoroughfare that connected London with Winchester.

[10] 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.

In the 1370s the family began to gift lands in Ropley to the founding of Winchester College by William of Wykeham.

[46] The church also bears some architectural similarities to St Peter's ad Vincula in nearby Colemore,[4] now redundant, albeit larger.

Throughout the medieval period the church saw several modifications, including extension and addition of a south chapel in the late 1200s.

Howley is perhaps Ropley's most famous resident, and went on to serve as a canon of Christ Church, Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University, Bishop of London (1813–1828), and Archbishop of Canterbury (1828–1848), in which capacity he crowned two British monarchs.

The new reverend was able to collect around £2,300 by 1896, about £244,000 in today's money, which was spent primarily on repairing the roof, re-paving the floor with pine blocks and concrete, and removing the old gallery.

[49] On the morning of 19 June 2014 the Grade-II listed church was severely damaged by a major electrical fire.

By the early 1900s it became clear that the population growth in Four Marks, then a hamlet within Ropley Parish, made necessary the construction of a new school there.

Parts of the original Victorian traditional flint and brick buildings remain, and now form the hall and the school kitchen.

The main teaching area consists of six modern classrooms with shared corridor working spaces.

[59] The research group primarily focusses on the history and archaeology of the Ropley, in addition to some neighbouring parishes, like Four Marks, West Tisted and Farringdon.