Kings Somborne, Hampshire
Historical Description
King's Sombourn, a village and a parish in Hants. The village stands near the Roman road to Sarum, and near Horsebridge station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Stockbridge; telegraph office, Horse-bridge railway station. The parish contains the tithings of Brook and Up Sombourn. Acreage, 6756; population of civil parish, 1189; of the ecclesiastical, 1262. The manor belonged anciently to the Crown, and is still attached to the Duchy of Lancaster. A palace of John of Gaunt stood near the church, and ruins of it, overgrown with large ancient yew trees, still exist. The living is a vicarage, united with the perpetual curacy of Little Sombourn, in the diocese of Winchester; value, £380 with residence. The church is partly Transition Norman partly Decorated English, includes — sepulchral recess with an ancient stone coffin, and has a tower, partly Early English but chiefly wooden. There are three dissenting 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 | King's Sombourn St. Peter and St. Paul | |
Hundred | Kings Sombourn | |
Poor Law union | Stockbridge |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Kings Somborne from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sombourn, King's (St. Peter and St. Paul))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Kings Somborne 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
Villages, Hamlets, &c
Brook (Kings Sombourn)Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, & 1622-34 is available to view on the Heraldry page.