Redbridge, Hampshire
Historical Description
Redbridge, a village in Millbrook parish, Hants, on the river Test or Anton at its influx to Southampton Water, with a station on the L. & S.W.R., 83 miles from London and 4 WNW of Southampton, and a post, money order, and telegraph office under Southampton. It was known at Domesday as Rodbridge, and in the time of Bede as Reodford; it had a small religious establishment in the 7th century where King Caedwalla put the brother of Arvandus to death, and which quite disappeared before the Norman Conquest; it is said by Camden to have changed its name to Eedbridge on account of the erection of a bridge at it where previously was a ford; it has for centuries been a place of considerable resort for coasting vessels; and it was the scene in the 18th century of General Bentham's experiments in the building of swift schooners and brigs. There are a large brewery and an extensive manure manufactory. The nearest church is at Millbrook village. At the Test there are traces of an ancient five-arched bridge and of a causeway.
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 | Millbrook | |
| Hundred | Buddlesgate | |
| Poor Law union | South Stoneham |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Redbridge from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Redbridge)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Redbridge 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.