Millbrook, Hampshire
Historical Description
Millbrook, a village and a parish in Hants. The village stands at the mouth of the river Test or Anton, and has a station on the L. & S.W.R., 79 miles from London. It was known at Domesday as Melebroc, and had formerly, by means of the Andover Canal, a considerable trade in corn, malt, coal, and timber. It has a post and money order office under Southampton; telegraph office, Redbridge. The parish contains also the hamlets of Freemantle, Redbridge, and the chapelry of Shirley. Acreage, 3032; population of the civil parish, 17,777; of the ecclesiastical, 1879. The South Hants Waterworks are situated in this parish. Traces of an ancient five-arched bridge, and of a causeway, on the river Test, are at Redbridge. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; value, J£200 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church of St Nicholas, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 1827. The churchyard contains a small granite obelisk to the memory of Pollok, author of the " Course of Time," who was buried here in 1829. The new parish church of Holy Trinity was erected in 1874, and is a handsome stone building in the Early English style. The rectory of Freemantle and the perpetual curacies of Shirley and St Mark, Fitzburgh, are separate benefices.
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 | Millbrook St. Nicholas | |
| Hundred | Buddlesgate | |
| Poor Law union | South Stoneham |
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 Millbrook from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Millbrook (St. Nicholas))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Millbrook 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
Hill (Milbrook)Shirley (Millbrook)
Sidford
Visitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, & 1622-34 is available to view on the Heraldry page.