Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CROOKHAM

CROOKHAM, a tything and a chapelry in Crondall parish, Hants. The tything lies on the Basingstoke canal, 2 miles SE of Winchfield r. station, and 4 ENE of Odiham; and has a post office under Farnham. Pop., 1, 020. Houses, 226. The chapelry is more extensive than the tything; bears the name of Crookham-with-Ewshott; and was constituted in 1842. Pop., 1, 283. Houses, 275. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £100. Patron, the Vicar of Crondall. The church is recent.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a tything and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Crondall CP/AP       Hampshire AncC
Place names: CROOKHAM     |     CROOKHAM WITH EWSHOTT
Place: Crookham

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