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Dummer, Hampshire

Historical Description

Dummer, a parish in Hants. The parish lies 5 miles SW of Basingstoke station on the L. & S.W.R., and has a post office under Basingstoke. Acreage, 2774; population of the civil parish, 426; of the ecclesiastical, 352. Dummer House is a chief residence. The land is hilly. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; value, £479 with residence. The church is ancient, contains several brasses, one of them with a rhyming inscription, and is good. A school has £14 from endowment. Whitfield and Hervey were familiar with this parish, and the latter wrote here some of his l< Meditations." In 1888, during some excavations near Dummer Church, an ancient burial urn and some vases and flints were discovered.

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 CountyHampshire 
Ecclesiastical parishDummer All Saints 
HundredBasingstoke 
Poor Law unionBasingstoke 

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 Dummer 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 Dummer are available from a number of sites:


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.

DistrictBasingstoke and Deane
CountyHampshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtRG25
Post TownBasingstoke

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