Its nearest railway station, on the South West Main Line, is in Hook, three miles to the east of the village.

Up Nately was originally part of the Great Manor of Mapledurwell, which the Domesday Book records as being held in 1086 by Hubert de Port as Chief Tenant and Lord and having 26 families.

[2] When the Great Manor of Mapleduwell was broken up in the early 12th century, Up Nately was created as a separate estate and granted to the Cistercian Abbey of Tiron in France by Adam de Port, Lord of Mapledurwell.

After the foundation of Andwell Priory, part of Up Nately (land now in Heather Row Lane) continued to be included in the Manor of Mapledurwell.

In 1535 these lands were transferred to Corpus Christi College, Oxford (which had been granted the Manor of Mapledurwell in 1529 by William Frost of Avington).

[7] Like other collegiate institutions, Corpus Christi was legally unable to sell or grant away its lands and so continued to hold the estates intact until the mid 19th century.

As a result, therefore, the pattern of roads, buildings, woodland, open fields and commons on College property changed little between 1616 and 1795.

However, the opening of the Basingstoke Canal in 1794, which aimed to stimulate agricultural development in Hampshire, brought many jobs to local people.

[8] There are a number of chalk and sand pits in fields surrounding the village, indicating historic quarrying activity.

[10]In 1897 Sir Frederick Seager Hunt, a Conservative Party politician and distiller, who two years earlier had bought the Basingstoke Canal, invested £20,000 to set up the Hampshire Brick and Tile Company on 32 acres of land in Up Nately.

[23][24] This was designated in 1981 by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council in recognition of the special architectural and historic interest of the village.

[25] The Reserve, which has an area of 2.83 hectares (7.0 acres) and is part of Butter Wood Site of Special Scientific Interest, supports the following wildlife: coot, moorhen, mallard duck, little grebe, ruddy darter, water vole, ramsons and badgers.

The Greywell Tunnel is an important hibernation site for bat species including the Pipistrelle, Natterer and Daubenton.