Warnford, Hampshire
Historical Description
Warnford, a parish, with Warnford village and Elversdown hamlet, in Hants, 5. miles from Petersfield station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post office under Bishops Waltham; money order and telegraph office, West Meon. Acreage, 3179; population, 255. Warnford Park is the seat of the Woods family. Remains of an ancient manor-house, popularly called King John's House, and forming a fine relic of Early Domestic architecture, are in the grounds. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; gross value, £490 with residence. The church is Early English, with a Norman tower. There is a Primitive 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.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Warnford 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 Warnford 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
RiversdownVisitations Heraldic
The Visitations of Hampshire, 1530, 1575, & 1622-34 is available to view on the Heraldry page.