East Worldham, Hampshire
Historical Description
Worldham, East, a parish in Hants, 2½ miles SE of Alton station on the L. & S.W.R. Post town, Alton. Acreage, 1800; population, 252. A tumulus is on King John's Hill, and fragments of Roman pottery have been found there. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; gross value, £150. Patron, Magdalen College, Oxford. The church is in the Transition Norman style. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Hampshire | |
Hundred | Alton | |
Poor Law union | Alton |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for East Worldham from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Worldham, East)
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of East Worldham 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.