Farleigh Wallop, Hampshire

Historical Description

Farleigh Wallop, a parish in Hants, 3 miles SSW of Basingstoke town and station on the G.W.R. Post town and money order and telegraph office, Basingstoke. Acreage, 17 25 y population, 103. The manor belongs to the Earl of Portsmouth. Farleigh House stands amid fine scenery. The living is a rectory, annexed to the rectory of Cliddesden, in the diocese of Winchester. The church is small and cruciform.

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 County	Hampshire
Ecclesiastical parish	Farleigh-Wallop St. John
Hundred	Bermondspit
Poor Law union	Basingstoke

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 Farleigh Wallop from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Farleigh-Wallop (St. John))

Land and Property

The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.

Maps

Online maps of Farleigh Wallop 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:

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, & 1622-34 is available to view on the Heraldry page.

District	Basingstoke and Deane
County	Hampshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Postal district	RG25
Post Town	Basingstoke