Hawley, Hampshire
Historical Description
Hawley, a small village and a chapelry in Yateley parish, Hants. The village lies near the river Blackwater, the boundary with Surrey, and 2 miles from Farnborough station on the L. & S.W.R. The chapelry was constituted in 1838. It has a post office under Blackwater; money order and telegraph office, Blackwater. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Winchester; gross value, £400 with residence. The church is a Gothic edifice of 1838, and was enlarged in 1882. All Saints' Home for girls was erected in 1881 for the accommodation of 30 children; there is a small church attached for their use.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Hampshire | |
Civil parish | Yately | |
Hundred | Crondall |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Hawley from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Hawley are available from a number of sites:
- Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- Google Streetview.
- National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
- OpenStreetMap.
- old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
- Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
- A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)
Newspapers and Periodicals
The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Hampshire newspapers online:
- Portsmouth Evening News
- Hampshire Telegraph
- Hampshire Advertiser
- Hampshire Chronicle
- Aldershot Military Gazette
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, & 1622-34 is available to view on the Heraldry page.