Bishopstoke Hampshire Family History Guide
Bishopstoke is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hampshire. Fair Oak is a chapelry of Bishopstoke.
Alternative names: Bishop Stoke, Bishops Stoke
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1657
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1780
Nonconformists include: Bible Christian Methodist, Independent/Congregational, and Wesleyan Methodist.
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Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
BISHOPSTOKE, a village and a parish in Winchester district, Hants. The village stands on the river Itchen, about a mile E of a station of its own name on the Southwestern railway, whence the branches go off toward Gosport and Salisbury, and 6½ miles NNE of Southampton.
It is large and well built; includes a spacious cheese-market, a square enclosure with sheds and stores, constructed in 1852; and has a post office under Winchester. A hotel, with posting establishment, adjoins the railway station.
The parish comprises 3,360 acres. Real property, £6,342. Pop., 1,390. Houses, 281. The property is divided among a few. The manor was held, in the time of Edward VI., by Bishop Bale. The villa and fine gardens of the Garnier family noticed by Loudon are here.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £437. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church was built in 1825, and has a square tower. There is a Wesleyan chapel.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
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Administration
- County: Hampshire
- Civil Registration District: Winchester
- Probate Court: Pre-1845 – Court of the Peculiar of Bishopstoke, Post-1844 – Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
- Diocese: Winchester
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, 1845-1871 – Winchester, Post-1870 – Bishop’s Waltham
- Poor Law Union: Winchester
- Hundred: Fawley
- Province: Canterbury