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Warnford

WARNFORD, a parish, in the union of Droxford, hundred of Meon-Stoke, Droxford and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 13 miles (S. W. by S.) from Alton; containing, with the hamlet of Riversdown, 381 inhabitants. The manor, in the reign of William I., belonged to Hugh de Port, whose descendant, William, assumed the name of his maternal grandmother, St. John: the old manor-house, near the church, is now a ruin called King John's, by corruption of the family name. The parish comprises 3010 acres, of which 396 are common or waste land. Warnford Park is a spacious mansion. The living is a rectory, valued in the king's books at £21. 9. 4½., and in the gift of the Rev. J. Wynne; the tithes have been commuted for £615; there is a parsonage-house, and the glebe contains 22 acres. The church, which is in the early English style, with a Norman tower, was founded by Wilfrid, and rebuilt in the reign of the Conqueror; the font is large and of Norman character, and among the numerous ancient details are a confessional, and a recessed niche in which the sacred vessels were deposited. The building also contains a marble monument, in the Italian style, to the family of Neale, with recumbent effigies of the parents, and effigies of their children in kneeling attitude.

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

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