Clanfield, Hampshire
Historical Description
Clanfield, a parish in Hants, 6 miles NW of Rowlands Castle station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5½ SW of Petersfield. It has a post office under Horndean; money order and telegraph office, Horndean. Acreage, 1404; population, 247. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Chalton, in the diocese of Winchester. The church, dedicated to St James, was erected in 1879, replacing a very dilapidated building of no architectural interest. There are Wesleyan and Congregational chapels.
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 | Clanfield St. James | |
Hundred | Finch-Dean | |
Poor Law union | Catherington |
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 Clanfield from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Clanfield (St. James))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Clanfield 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.