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Shidfield, Hampshire

Historical Description

Shidfield, a chapelry in Droxford parish, Hants, 2¼ miles from Botley station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office, and contains Shirrell Heath and Waltham Chase hamlets. Population, 1093. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £255 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Droxford. The church was built in 1875, and is a handsome stone structure in the Gothic style, with an embattled tower. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, reading room, and cottage hospital.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

Administration

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

Ancient CountyHampshire 
Civil parishDroxford 
HundredBishops Waltham 

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


Directories & Gazetteers

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Land and Property

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