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Newnham (St. Nicholas)

NEWNHAM (St. Nicholas), a parish, in the union and hundred of Basingstoke, Basingstoke and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 4½ miles (W. S. W.) from Hartford-Bridge; containing 337 inhabitants. It comprises 847 acres, of which 24 are common or waste. The London and South-Western railway passes within a very short distance of the church. The living is a rectory, with that of Mapledurwell annexed, valued in the king's books at £17. 17. 1., and in the gift of Queen's College, Oxford: the tithes of Newnham have been commuted for £305, and there are 22 acres of glebe.

Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.

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