Tangley war memorial 1921

The name Tangley is Anglo-Saxon. The earliest reference, in 1174, calls it Tangelea, meaning a wood or clearing (leah) on a tongue, or perhaps tongues, of land.

Tangelea 1175. Possibly 'woodland clearing at the spits of land'. Old English tang + leah

 It has one precious thing, like no other in the county. No other village, nor any of the great and busy towns of Hampshire, has a font like Tangley's. Saxon, Norman, Mediaeval, and Tudor fonts are scattered through the county, but Tangley's is unique among them.