Barton Stacey, Hampshire

Historical Description

Barton-Stacey, a tithing and a parish in Hants. The tithing lies on a headstream of the Anton river, and on the line of the Roman road to Winchester, 2 miles from Longparish station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5¼ SE of Andover. The parish includes also the townships of Bransbury, Drayton, and Newton-Stacey. It has a post office under Micheldever; money order office, Sutton Scotney; telegraph office, Fullerton. Acreage, 5026; population, 575. A strong ancient entrenchment occurs at Bransbury. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; gross value, £360 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. The church is Early English and cruciform, and has a fine Perpendicular tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel and some small charities.

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
Ecclesiastical parish	Barton-Stacey All Saints
Hundred	Barton Stacey
Poor Law union	Andover

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

Church Records

The register dates from October 15, 1713.

Churches

Church of England

All Saints (parish church)

The church of All Saints is a cruciform building of flint and stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, consisting of chancel, nave, aisle, transepts, south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 5 bells: there is a memorial window, erected in 1877 and another in 1886: the pulpit and lectern were presented by R. K. Hodgson esq. in memory of his uncle, J. Stewart Hodgson esq. of Gavelacre: the church has been restored since 1873, at a cost of £900, and in 1900 important structural repairs were effected, at a cost of £250: a choir vestry was added in 1910: there are 300 sittings.

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Barton Stacey from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Barton-Stacey (All Saints))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Barton Stacey 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.

District	Test Valley
County	Hampshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Postal district	SO21
Post Town	Winchester