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Sopley, Hampshire

Historical Description

Sopley, a parish, with Sopley village and Avon, Ripley, and Shirley tithings, in Hants, on the river Avon, 3 miles N of Christchurch station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Ringwood; telegraph office, Christchurch. Acreage, 4779; population of the civil parish, 833; of the ecclesiastical, 828. There is a parish council consisting of five members. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £280 with residence. The church is cruciform and mostly Early English, and has been well restored.

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 CountyHampshire 
Ecclesiastical parishSopley St. Michael 
HundredChristchurch 
Poor Law unionChristchurch 

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


Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Sopley 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 Sopley are available from a number of sites:


Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Hampshire newspapers online:


Villages, Hamlets, &c

Avon

Visitations Heraldic

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

DistrictNew Forest
CountyHampshire
RegionSouth East
CountryEngland
Postal districtBH23
Post TownChristchurch

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