Whitchurch, Hampshire
Historical Description
Whitchurch, a small town and a parish in Hants. The town has stations on the L. & S.W.R. and G.W.R., 59 miles from London, and 12 N of Winchester. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. It is a borough by prescription, governed by a parish council, sent two members to Parliament till disfranchised by the Reform Act of 1832, is a polling-place, and has a good inn, a town-hall, a mechanics' institute, a workhouse, and silk and corn mills on the river Test. Over the Test is a brick bridge of five arches. The parish includes Charlcott, Freefolk Priors, and Cold Henley tithings. Acreage, 6367; population of the civil parish, 2110; of the ecclesiastical, 1916. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £270 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The Church of All Saints is an edifice of flint and stone in various styles of architecture, with a massive western tower and lofty spire; it contains numerous memorials, and has been restored. There are Wesleyan, Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Congregational chapels.
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 | Whitchurch All Saints |
Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.
Directories & Gazetteers
We have transcribed the entry for Whitchurch from the following:
- Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Whitchurch (All Saints))
Land and Property
The Return of Owners of Land in 1873 for Hampshire (County Southampton) is available to browse.
Maps
Online maps of Whitchurch 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.