Sherfield upon Loddon, Hampshire

Historical Description

Sherfield-upon-Loddon, a parish, with a village, in Hants, 2½ miles of Bramley station, and 4 NE by N of Basingstoke station on the L. & S.W.R. and the G.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Basingstoke. Acreage, 2337; population, 619. There is a parish council of six members. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £550 with residence. The church is an ancient building of flint in the Decorated style, and has been restored. There are Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Plymouth Brethren chapels, and a school with a small endowment.

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	Sherfield-upon-Loddon St. Leonard
Hundred	Odiham
Poor Law union	Basingstoke

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

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Sherfield upon Loddon from the following:

Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Sherfield-upon-Loddon (St. Leonard))

Land and Property

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

Maps

Online maps of Sherfield upon Loddon 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.