Soberton, Hampshire
Historical Description
Soberton, a village and a parish in Hants. The village stands 4 miles E by S of Bishops Waltham station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Bishops Waltham; money order and telegraph office, Droxford. The parish contains also the hamlets of Kingsmead, Newtown, and Southend, the liberty of Wickham Lodge, and the tithing of East Hoe. Acreage, 5885; population of the civil parish, 1185; of the ecclesiastical, 1050. There is a parish council consisting of eleven members. The living is a perpetual curacy,. annexed to Meon Stoke. The church is Early English, part of its earliest work dating about 1120. It has a tower with eight bells. There is a Free Methodist chapel.
Administration
The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.
Ancient County | Hampshire | |
Hundred | Meon-Stoke | |
Poor Law union | Droxford |
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 Soberton 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 Soberton 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
SouthendVisitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, & 1622-34 is available to view on the Heraldry page.