Cove, Hampshire
Historical Description
Cove, a parish in Hants, adjacent to the boundary with Surrey, near Farnborough station on the L. & S.W.R., and 5¼ miles NNE of Farnham. It has a post office under Farnborough; money order and telegraph office, Farnborough. Acreage, 1972; population, 979. The ecclesiastical district comprises a part of South Hawley, and has a population of 1267. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; value, £290. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. A Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in 1888.
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 | Yateley | |
| Hundred | Crondall |
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 Cove 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 Cove 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.