Pamber, Hampshire

Historical Description

Pamber, a parish in Hants, 3½ miles S of the boundary with Berks, and 4 NNW of Basingstoke station on the G.W.R. and L. & S.W.R. Post town, Basingstoke; money order office, Tadley; telegraph office, Basingstoke Acreage, 2185; population of the civil parish, 709; of the ecclesiastical, 1178. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester, annexed to Monk Sherborne; net value, £50 with residence. Patron, Queen's College, Oxford. The church is part of an ancient priory, shows curious features, and contains a fine ancient oaken effigies of a knight. The priory was a cell to Cerasy Abbey in Normandy, and passed to successively Eton College, St Julien's Hospital in Southampton, and Queen's College, Oxford.

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
Hundred	Barton Stacey
Poor Law union	Basingstoke

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

Civil Registration

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Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Pamber from the following:

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

Land and Property

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Visitations Heraldic

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