Chilcomb, Hampshire
Historical Description
Chilcomb, a parish in Hants, near the river Itchen, 2 miles SE of Winchester. Post town, Winchester; money order and telegraph office, Winchester. Acreage, 2146; population, 1052. There are extensive limeworks. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; value, £200. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is Saxon (1060), with a very singular window of later date, and includes in its pavement some encaustic tiles. The parish reaches to Winchester, and includes the new part of the E side of the city. A new church (All Saints) was built for the city portion of the parish in 1894. A very interesting account of the parish as " Ciltecombe" is in Domesday Book.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
| Ancient County | Hampshire | |
| Hundred | Fawley | |
| Poor Law union | Winchester |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
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 Chilcomb 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 Chilcomb 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.