Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for WHITCHURCH

WHITCHURCH, a small town, a parish, and a district, in Hants. The town stands ½ mile S of the South-western railway, and 12 N of Winchester; is a borough by prescription, governed by a mayor and a bailiff; sent two members to parliament, till disfranchised by the reform act of 1832; is a polling place; and has a post-office‡ under Mitcheldever Station, a r. station with telegraph, a banking office, a good inn, a town hall, a restored early English church, four dissenting chapels, a mechanics' institute, national schools, a workhouse, charities £94, a silk factory, and fairs on the third Thursday of June and 19 and 20 Oct.—The parish includes Charlcott, Freefolk-Priors, and Cold Henley tythings; and comprises 6,142 acres. Real property, £6,869; of which £25 are in gasworks. Pop., 1,962. Houses, 429. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £205.* Patron, the Bishop of W.—The district contains 8 parishes. Acres, 29,513. Poor rates in 1863, £4,563. Pop. in 1851, 5,619; in 1861, 5,522. Houses, 1,209. Marriages in 1863, 29; births, 170,-of which 12 were illegitimate; deaths, 113,-of which 39 were at ages under 5 years, and 4 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 370: births, 1,836; deaths, 1,233. The places of worship, in 1851, were 7 of the Church of England, with 2,349 sittings; 3 of Independents, with 675 s.; 2 of Baptists, with 620 s.; 6 of Wesleyans, with 470 s.; 3 of Primitive Methodists, with 390 s.; and 1 of Latter Day Saints, with 20 s. The schools were 6 public day-schools, with 565 scholars; 6 private day-schools, with 128 s.; and 14 Sunday schools, with 1,002 s.


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

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Feature Description: "a small town, a parish, and a district"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Whitchurch CP/AP       Whitchurch RegD/PLU       Hampshire AncC
Place: Whitchurch

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