Hamble le Rice, Hampshire

Historical Description

Hamble-le-Rice, a parish in Hants, on Southampton water, at the mouth of the Hamble river, 2½ miles SSE of Netley station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Southampton. Acreage, 413 of land and 870 of water and foreshore; population, 423. A Cistercian priory was founded here as a cell to Tirone Abbey in France. At the suppression of alien monasteries this priory was purchased, in 1391, by William of Wykeham for Winchester College. Some remains exist of an ancient castle on a projecting point of land on the shore. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £106 with residence. Patron, Winchester College. The church is ancient, has some Norman traces, and contains several monuments; it was restored and enlarged in 1880.

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	Hamble-En-Le-Rice St. Andrew
Hundred	Mansbridge
Poor Law union	South Stoneham

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hamble le Rice from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hamble-En-Le-Rice (St. Andrew))

Land and Property

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

Maps

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Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
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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

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Visitations Heraldic

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