Marchwood, Hampshire

Historical Description

Marchwood, a village and a parish in Hants. The village stands on Southampton Water, 4 miles from Totton station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Southampton. It is an agricultural village and a coastguard station, and has extensive powder magazines, an hospital, and barracks. Under the Local 'Government Act (1894) Marchwood has a parish council of six members. The parish was constituted an ecclesiastical one in 1843 and a civil one in 1894. Population of ecclesiastical parish, 695. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £150 with residence. The church is a modern edifice of white brick and stone. Tliere is a Congregational chapel.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Marchwood from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Marchwood)

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Marchwood 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.