Fleet, Hampshire
Historical Description
Fleet, an ecclesiastical parish in Hants, with a station on the L. & S.W.R., 36¼ miles from London, and 5 by road from Famborough, Aldershot, or Farnham. It is remarkably healthy and bracing, amidst heather and pines, 280 feet above the sea. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Winchfield. Population, 1171. The parish is traversed by the Basingstoke Canal for many miles without a lock, and its wooded banks make it a favourite boating excursion through Dogmersfield Park, &c. There is a large sheet of water with wild fowl through which the S.W.R. passes, which, used formerly to pay an annual tribute of fish to Winchester monastery. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Winchester; gross value, £250 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is. a good red brick building, remarkable for its porch, a kind of cloister extending along the whole west front, and said to be copied from a church near Verona. This church gives an excellent example of successful mural stencilling. There is. a fine public hall, and Methodist and Baptist chapels.
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 | Fleet Holy Trinity | |
| Hundred | Uggscombe | |
| Poor Law union | Weymouth |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Fleet from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Fleet (Holy Trinity))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Fleet 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.