East Woodhay, Hampshire
Historical Description
Woodhay, East, a parish, with numerous hamlets and with Woolton Hill chapelry, in Hants, with a station on the G.W.R., 56 miles from London, and 4½ SW of Newbury. Post town, Newbury; money order and telegraph office, Woolton Hill. Acreage, 5080; population of the civil parish, 1693; of the ecclesiastical, 838. A palace of the Bishops of Winchester was here. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £395 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is a building of brick and stone. There are Baptist and Wesleyan chapels. Bishops Hooper, Ken, and Lowth were rectors.
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 Woodhay St. Martin | |
| Hundred | Evingar | |
| Poor Law union | Kingsclere |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for East Woodhay from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Woodhay, East (St. Martin))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of East Woodhay 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
Villages, Hamlets, &c
Woolton HillVisitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, & 1622-34 is available to view on the Heraldry page.