Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire
Historical Description
Hurstbourne Priors, a village and a parish in Hants. The village stands 1½ mile from Hurstboume station on the L. & S.W.R., and 2 miles WSW of Whitchurch. It has a post office under Whitchurch; money order and telegraph office, Whitchurch. Acreage of the civil parish, 3249; population, 375; of the ecclesiastical, 1407. The manor belonged to the Winchester Benedictines, passed to the family of Wallop, and belongs now to their descendant, the Earl of Ports-month. Hurstboume Park is the Earl's seat. The mansion was designed by Wyatt, looks ill as a building, but occupies a fine site in a large thickly-wooded park, and contains some good pictures and the manuscripts of Sir Isaac Newton, brought into the family by Sir Isaac's niece, Lady Lymington, and used by Sir David Brewster in his life of Newton. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of St Mary Bourne, in the diocese of Winchester; gross value, £230 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is Norman and Early English, has a low tower, and was restored in 1870.
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 | Hurstbourn-Priors St. Andrew | |
Hundred | Evingar | |
Poor Law union | Whitchurch |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Hurstbourne Priors from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hurstbourn-Priors (St. Andrew))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Hurstbourne Priors 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.