Keyhaven, Hampshire
Historical Description
Keyhaven, a tithing, with a village, in Milford parish, Hants, on the coast opposite Hurst Castle, 4¼ miles SSW of Lymington. Post town, Milford. It forms a ready point of proceeding by boat to Hurst Castle. A hurricane, in Nov. 1839, drove hither such an extraordinary tide as overflowed and damaged the land, and seriously imperilled the village. For parish council purposes the civil parish of Milford is divided into two wards, Pennington and Milford.
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 | Milford | |
| Hundred | Christchurch | |
| Poor Law union | Lymington |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Keyhaven 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 Keyhaven 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.