East Stratton, Hampshire
Historical Description
Stratton, East, a parish in Hants, 2¾ miles ENE of Micheldever station on the L. & S.W.R., and 8 NNE of Winchester. It has a post office under Micheldever station; money order and telegraph office, Micheldever. Acreage, 1996; population, 306. The manor belonged anciently to Hyde Abbey at Winchester; went at the dissolution to Sir T. Wriothesley; passed by marriage with a daughter of the last Earl of Southampton to William Lord Russell; and now belongs to the Earl of Northbrook, Stratton Park is the manorial mansion. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to Micheldever. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is a handsome building of flint and stone in the Decorated Perpendicular style, built at the expense of the Earl of Northbrook and his half-brother the Hon. Francis Baring, in 1888. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and a working-men's club.
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 | East Stratton All Saints | |
| Hundred | Mitcheldever | |
| Poor Law union | Winchester |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for East Stratton from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Stratton, East (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 East Stratton 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.