 | 1086 Domesday survey |
| 1000’s (late) St Peter’s built |
| 1400’s Soames Place built, bell tower added to church |
| 1500’s The Forge built, The Old Farmhouse built, The Old Parsonage and Tithe Barn built |
| 1592 Silver communion cup presented to St Peter’s |
| 1600’s Manor Farm House built |
| 1620 Devastating fire in Alresford |
| 1624 Restrictions introduced on timber framed houses |
| 1644 Battle of Cheriton, 3 miles from Ropley |
| 1665 Great Plague of London |
| 1677 The first of the Budd family settle in Ropley area |
| 1700’s (early) Ropley House built |
| 1700’s (late) The Old Vicarage and Ropley Grove built |
| 1726 Church clock installed at St Peter’s |
| 1730 North Street Farmhouse built |
| 1745 Turnpike Cottage built |
| 1746 The Malt House built |
| 1749 Fourth church bell cast for St Peter’s |
| 1753 Act of Parliament to build A31 as we know it today |
| 1766 William Howley born – Archbishop of Canterbury 1828-1848, who crowned Queen Victoria – he was raised in "Archbishop’s Cottage" |
| 1788 The original Vicarage, Ropley Lodge and Hall Place were built |
| 1800’s Ropley Manor built |
| 1826 First school opened by Samuel Maddocks along Petersfield Road |
| 1839 Tithe map of this area produced |
| 1845 Gold torque dating from 800-1000 BC discovered |
| 1846 Hampshire hunt kennels established in Ropley |
| 1851 Census — population of Ropley 818, First post office opened in Ropley |
| 1856 -1932 Miss Marianne Hagen, author of "Annals of Old Ropley" |
| 1856 Horse and Groom (between East Tisted and Farringdon) burnt down |
| 1861 Alton, Alresford and Winchester Railway Ltd formed, work starts on railway at Ropley |
| 1864 Anchor Inn burnt down |
| 1869 Methodist chapel, now Eleanor House, built. New school built in Church Lane |
| 1871 Lye Farm burnt down |
| 1879 The Tichborne’s claimant trial |
| 1882 Ropley becomes a separate parish |
| 1883 Coffee Room opened |
| 1888 Ropley School enlarged |
| 1894 St Peter’s Church rebuilt |
| 1895 Ropley and West Tisted Cottage Garden and Allotment Society founded |
| 1909 Dene Stores and bakery opened, Methodist Chapel opens |
| 1918 Wooden Parish Hall built |
| 1921 First tractor in the village and first TT (tested for tuberculosis) milk herd |
| 1922 Ropley Women’s Institute founded |
| 1934 First mains electricity available |
| 1936 Monkwood Mission Church established |
| 1938 New Parish Hall opened |
| 1945 Mains water came to Ropley (though many houses still without in the 1970’s and at least one as late as the mid-1990’s) |
| 1948 Cricket and football pitches cleared |
| 1952 Mains electricity widely came to Ropley (similarly, took to the end of the 1970’s for all houses to be connected) |
| 1957 Bowling Green laid |
| 1960 School modernised |
| 1962 Cricket pavilion opened |
| 1966 Pram Race started |
| 1973 Railway closed |
| 1974 Ropley Football club promoted to senior division |
| 1977 Mid-Hants Railway Co. opens the Watercress steam railway |
| 1981 New tennis pavilion built |
| 1981 Census; 1432 population of Ropley excluding West Tisted |
| 1986 New Bowling Club clubhouse built |
| 1989 New surgery built; a good example of modern architecture |
| 1991 Census; 1535 |
| 1995 Ropley WI closed for the second time |
| 1998 School extended |
