Hinton Admiral, Hampshire

Historical Description

Hinton Admiral, a hamlet and a chapelry in Christchurch parish, Hants. -The hamlet lies 2 miles N of Christchurch Bay, and has a station on the L. & S.W.R., 100 miles from London. The chapelry includes the hamlet, but does not seem to have definite limits. Post town, Christchurch. Population of the ecclesiastical district, 300. Hinton Admiral is the chief residence. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Winchester; gross value,, £200 with residence. The church is a brick building with stone dressings, was restored in 1875, and enlarged in 1883.

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 County	Hampshire
Civil parish	Christchurch
Hundred	Christchurch
Poor Law union	Christchurch

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hinton Admiral from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hinton-Admiral)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Hinton Admiral 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:

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, & 1622-34 is available to view on the Heraldry page.