Laverstoke, Hampshire
Historical Description
Laverstoke, a village and a parish in Hants. The village stands in the valley of the Test, 2 miles from Overton station on the L. & S.W.R., and has a paper mill, which was established in the time of George I., and which makes the paper of the notes of the Bank of England. Post town, Micheldever. Acreage of the civil parish, 1957; population, 173; of the ecclesiastical, 530. Laverstoke House is the residence of the Portal family. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester, united with Freefolk; value, £300. The old church, containing tablets of the Portal family from the time of their arrival in Huguenot days, has been made into a mortuary chapel, and a beautiful new church was erected in 1894.
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 | Laverstoke St. Mary | |
Hundred | Overton |
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 Laverstoke from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Laverstoke (St. Mary))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Laverstoke 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.