Place:


Pamber  Hampshire

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Pamber like this:

PAMBER, a parish in Basingstoke district, Hants: 3¼ miles S of the boundary with Berks, and 4 N N W of Basingstoke r. station. Post-town, Monk-Sherborne, under Basingstoke. Acres, 2, 150. Real property, £2,034. Pop., 677. Houses, 143. Pamber forest is a meet for the Vine hounds. The living is a p. ...


curacy in the diocese of Winchester. Value, not reported. Pa.tron, Queen's College, Oxford. The church is part of anancient priory, shows curious features, and contains a fine ancient oaken-effigies of a knight. The priory was a cell to Cerasy abbey in Normandy; and passed to successively Eton college, St. Julien's hospital in Southampton, and Queen's college in Oxford. Charities, £5.

Pamber through time

Pamber is now part of Basingstoke and Deane district. Click here for graphs and data of how Basingstoke and Deane has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Pamber itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Pamber, in Basingstoke and Deane and Hampshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/1727

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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