Micheldever, Hampshire

Historical Description

Micheldever, a village and a parish in Hants. The village stands 2½ miles SE of Micheldever station on the L. & S.W.B, 58 from London, and 7 NNE of Winchester. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. The parish contains the tithings of North Brook, South Brook, West Stratton, and Weston Colley. Acreage, 7820; population of the civil parish, 1049; of the ecclesiastical, 1355. The parish has a council of ten members under the Local Government Act, 1894, and returns three members to the district council. The property is all in one estate, belonged anciently to Hyde Abbey at Winchester, went at the dissolution to the Earl of Southampton, passed by marriage to William Lord Russell, and now belongs to the Earl of Northbrook. An embankment about 100 feet high, formed across an expanse of meadows, carries the railway in the neighbourhood of Micheldever station. The living is a vicarage, united with the curacy of East Stratton, in the diocese of Winchester; gross value, £290 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Northbrook. The church succeeded an old one destroyed by fire in 1806, was built at a cost of £10,000-defrayed by Sir Francis Baring; retains the tower of the previous church, and contains monuments by Flaxman to the Baring family. There are alms-houses for fifteen poor people, and a Methodist chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Micheldever from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Mitcheldever (St. Mary))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Micheldever 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.