Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for CATHERINGTON

CATHERINGTON, a village, a parish, and a district in Hants. The village stands about a mile NNW of Horndean, under Catherington down, near Bere forest, 3¼ miles NW by W of Rowlands Castle r. station, and 5½ NNW of Havant. The parish comprises 5,139 acres. Post Town, Horndean. Real property, £7,265. Pop., 1,151. Houses, 231. The property is subdivided. Catherington House is the seat of the Rev. N. Pearse. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £280.* Patron, G. Pritchard, Esq. The church is early Norman; has a massive tower; and contains a fine old monument of Chief-Justice Hyde. Charities, £16.—The district includes only the subdistrict of Horndean, containing the parishes of Catherington, Blendworth, Chalton, and Clanfield, and the ville of Waterloo. Acres, 10,561. Poor-rates in 1866, £1,802. Pop. in 1861, 2,497. Houses, 502. Marriages in 1866, 22; births, 95,-of which 2 were illegitimate; deaths, 47,-of which 11 were at ages under 3 years, and 3 at ages above 85 years. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 163; births, 776; deaths, 478. The places of worship in 1851 were 6 of the Church of England, with 1,340 sittings; and 5 of Independents, with 510 s. The schools were 5 public day schools, with 200 scholars; 4 private day schools, with 88 s.; and 9 Sunday schools, with 457 s. The workhouse is in Catherington.


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

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

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