Copythorne or North Eling Hampshire Family History Guide
Copythorne or North Eling is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Hampshire, created in 1837 from Eling Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Copythorne
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1834
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1838
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See Eling Hampshire Family History Guide
A History of the County of Hampshire 1911
Copythorne is a large parish, lying low in the valleys of the Cadnam River, the Blackwater and the Bartley Water, including Bartley, Newbridge, Wigley and parts of Cadnam and Ower. It contains 5,551 acres of land with 29 acres of inland water, of which 916 acres are arable land, 1,715 acres permanent grass and 1,159½ acres woodland.
The village is on the high road to Romsey, and to the north of it is Copythorne Common; parts of Cadnam Common and Furzley Common are also in the parish, and Shelly Common, a wide tract of rough common, lies on the north side of the Salisbury and Southampton high road. There are large tracts of woodland in the south, west and north of the parish, and there are parks at Paultons (Captain Roger C. H. Sloane-Stanley), Bartley Lodge (Major F. B. Dalrymple), Beechwood (Col. Charles G. Heathcote, J.P.), and Goldenhays (Mrs. Howard). The soil is clay.
There are tumuli at Barrow Hill, east of the village of Copythorne, and a supposed Roman camp on Half-Moon Common.
Source: A History of the County of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight 1911. The Victoria History of the Counties of England Volume 4, ed. William Page. London Archibald Constable and Company Limited.
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Administration
- County: Hampshire
- Civil Registration District: New Forest
- Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
- Diocese: Winchester
- Rural Deanery: Southampton
- Poor Law Union: New Forest
- Hundred: Redbridge
- Province: Canterbury