Hampshire Including the Isle of Wight. With Maps ...
Edward Robert Kelly
1875
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acres of glebe aisles Alresford Alton Andover archdeaconry of Winchester bart Basingstoke bells Bishop of Winchester Bishop's Waltham borough brick building built Cambridge chalk chancel chancel and nave chapel charity chief crops Christchurch church of St civil parish consists of chancel contains county court district crops are wheat Dean deanery of Alresford diocese and archdeaconry diocese of Winchester division and county Droxford Early English style east ecclesiastical parish Edward erected Fareham Fordingbridge gift gravel gross estimated rental hamlet handsome held Henry House hundred Isle of Wight John Kingsclere land living lord Lymington miles north miles south miles south-west National school Newport north-west Northern division Odiham Oxford park Petersfield petty sessional division population in 1871 Portsmouth principal landowners rateable value rectory register dates residence Romsey rural deanery Ryde seat south-east Southampton square tower station stone street subsoil Thomas tithing town vicarage village and parish William yearly value
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Page 1 - Hampshire is bounded on the north by Berkshire, on the east by Surrey and Sussex, on the south by the English Channel, and on the west by Wiltshire and Dorsetshire. The length of the county (mainland part) from north to south varies from 37 to 46 miles ; the breadth varies from 28 to 41 miles.
Page 54 - There appears to have been a castle here at a very remote period ; for in a grant made to the priory of Monks' Sherbourne, in the reign of Henry II., mention is made of the
Page 108 - Mention of the town, however, is first met with about the year 900, in the account given by the Saxon chronicler of the contest for the crown between Edward the Elder and his kinsman Ethelwald in 901 ; the latter having collected troops to support his pretensions, marched to Wimborne, in Dorsetshire, of which place he took possession, and afterwards continued his progress to Tweonea, or Twynham...
Page 36 - The living is a vicarage, in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Lichfield, valued in the king's books at £40.
Page 38 - The register dates from the year 1559. The living is a rectory...
Page 103 - Winchester ; the joint annual value is £000, with residence and 77 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge, and held by the Rev.
Page 105 - Is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is marl ; subsoil, gravel and chalk.
Page 192 - Tharp, esq., is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is various.
Page 277 - The first abbess was Marivanna, a lady of noble origin and great piety, who was succeeded by Elwina: during the ministry of this abbess, the Danes, headed by Selwyn, effected a landing, and proceeded direct to the monastery, which they pillaged : by some miraculous agency the abbess is said to have received brief warning of the invaders...
Page 387 - Medows esq. is lord of the manor and the principal landowner. The soil is light ; sulwoil, chalk.