Sheet, Hampshire
Historical Description
Sheet, a township in Petersfield parish, Hants, on the river Rother, 1 mile NE of Petersfield. It has a post office under Petersfield; money order and telegraph office, Petersfield. Acreage, 1583; population, 784. There is a parish council consisting of six members and a chairman. The living is. consolidated with Petersfield. The church is a handsome stone building in the Early English style.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Hampshire | |
Civil parish | Petersfield | |
Hundred | Finch-Dean | |
Poor Law union | Petersfield |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Sheet from the following:
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Sheet 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.