Empshott is a village of about 90 inhabitants situated about two miles south of Selborne in the hangers of East Hampshire. The village has been included in the civil parish of Hawkley since 1932. The village is spread out from the B3006 to the mill on the river Rother which forms the old boundary with Hawkley to the base of Noar Hill towards Selborne to a winding boundary near Le Court. The village centres around the village church next to "The Grange" and "The Hut" the 1920's built wooden village hall that is the venue for most of the village activities, such as Scotish Reel night, Harvest Supper, some meetings for the Empshott & Hawkley Horticutural Society, occasional Parish Council and PCC meeings and the annual quiz night. The village has an excellent farm shop near the Church, Grange Farm Shop, (the Village Stores & Post Office closed in the 70's) and the nearest pubs are Hawkley, Selborne and Greatham . The B3006 running through the village, until the early 80's a winding country lane, was widened to allow the transporting of cruise missiles formed part of a daily "race track" from the A3 to Alton has now got a 30mph speed limit. This has improved the safety and noise for the inhabitants, however many drivers ignore the limit and so make it very hazardous to cross the road for the residents and walkers who use the three footpaths crossing the road inside the zone.

This tiny Parish was distinguished in a survey of 1428 as one of the Hampshire Parishes in which there were fewer than ten inhabitants holding houses, in 1931 the population had risen to 171. The manor of Empshott belonged to Edward the Confessor but was leased to Bundi and Saxi; at the time of the Domesday Survey it was held by Geoffrey de Venuz, a marshall to William the Conqueror. The manor remained in the Venuz family during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries but by the reign of Edward II it had passed to Aymer de Valence. Grange Farm was originally the manor house, and the manor courts were always held there.