Newnham, Hampshire

Historical Description

Newnham, a parish, with a village, in Hants, 1 mile from Hook station on the L. & S.W.R., and 4½ miles E by N of Basingstoke. It has a post office, of the name of Newnham Green; money order and telegraph office, Hook. Acreage, 1404; population of the civil parish, 446; of the ecclesiastical, with Maplederwell, 624. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a rectory, united with the perpetual curacy of Maplederwell, in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £270 with residence. Patron, Queen's College, Oxford. The church is old and curious, lias been restored, and contains some interesting monuments. There is a Methodist chapel.

Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England & Wales, 1894-5

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	Newnham St. Nicholas
Hundred	Basingstoke
Poor Law union	Basingstoke

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Newnham from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Newnham (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 Newnham 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:

Visitations Heraldic

The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, & 1622-34 is available to view on the Heraldry page.

District	Basingstoke and Deane
County	Hampshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Postal district	RG27
Post Town	Hook