Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for HARTLEY-WINTNEY

HARTLEY-WINTNEY, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a district in Hants. The village stands 2½ miles NW of Winchfield r. station, and 3¼ NE by N of Odiham. The parish contains also the hamlet of HartfordBridge, which has a post office under Winchfield. Acres, 2, 405. Real property, £5, 554. Pop. in 1851, 1, 582; in 1861, 1, 746. Houses, 346. The property is much subdivided. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £108. * Patron, Lady St. John Mildmay. The old church is ancient, of various dates; and the new one, in the decorated style, was founded in 1869. There are a Baptist chapel, a workhouse, and charities £11. A Cistertian nunnery was at HartleyBridge.—The sub-district contains also the parishes of Winchfield, Elvetham, Eversley, Heckfield, and Rotherwick. Acres, 19, 993. Pop., 4, 965. Houses, 1, 035. -The district comprehends also the sub-district of Odiham, containing the parishes of Odiham, Dogmersfield, Crondall, South Warnborongh, and Greywell. Acres of the district, 42, 051. Poor rates in 1863, £6, 883. Pop. in 1851, 11, 223; in 1861, 11, 480. Houses, 2, 386. Marriages in 1862, 48; births, 385, -of which 27 were illegitimate; deaths, 207, -of which 54 were at ages under 5 years, and 9 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 695. births, 3, 710; deaths, 2, 187. The places of worship, in 1851, were 14 of the Church of England, with 3, 074 sittings; 5 of Independents, with 824 s.; 6 of Baptists, with 836 s.; and 1 of Bible Christians, with 130 s. The schools were 23 public day schools, with 1, 493 scholars; 15 private day schools, with 318 s; and 15 Sunday schools, with 880 s.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

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Feature Description: "a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a district"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hartley Wintney CP/AP       Hartley Wintney SubD       Hartley Wintney RegD/PLU       Hampshire AncC
Place: Hartley Wintney

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