Stokes Bay, Hampshire

Historical Description

Stokes Bay, a village in Alverstoke parish, Hants, with a station on the L. & S.D.R., 82 miles from London, and 2 S of Gosport. It has a pier and coastguard station, is the point of steamboat communication with Eyde, and overlooks a famous roadstead, where all ships of war, when fitted with new engines, test their speed at a measured mile.

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Stokes Bay 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.