Fawley Hampshire Family History Guide
Fawley is an Ancient Parish in the county of Hampshire. Exbury is a chapelry of Fawley.
Other places in the parish include: Stone, Stanswood, Langley, Holbury, Hardley, Cadlands, Butsash, and Badminstone.
Alternative names:
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1673
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1707
Nonconformists include: Baptist and Wesleyan Methodist.
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The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
FAWLEY, a village, a parish, and a sub-district, in Hants. The village stands on the W of Southampton Water, 5½ miles SSE of Southampton r. station; commands a charming view of Southampton Water and its shores; and has a post office under Southampton.
The parish includes the hamlets of Badminstone, Butsash, Cadlands, Hardley, Holbury, Langley, Stanswood, and Stone, the chapelry of Hythe-St. John, and a tract of 2, 670 acres in the Denny-Lodge walk of the New Forest. Acres, 9, 722; of which 3, 360 are water. Real property, £9, 451. Pop., 1,849. Houses, 378. The property is not much divided. Eaglehurst and Cadlands are fine seats. A tract of upwards of an acre, at Stanswood, used often to shift its position.
The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £879. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is ancient; has a fine Norman western door; consists of nave, chancel, and three aisles, with a Norman tower; dates, as to most of its portions, about 1260; and was restored in 1844.
The vicarages of Exbury and Hythe are separate benefices. There are chapels for Baptists and Wesleyans.
The sub-district includes three other parishes, three extra-parochial tracts, and a farther tract of 4, 765 acres in the New Forest; and is in the New Forest district. Acres, 33, 430. Pop., 4, 202. Houses, 853.
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: New Forest
- Probate Court: Pre-1845 – Court of the Peculiar of Fawley with Exbury, Lepe, Cadlands, Ower, Holbury, Langley, Stanswood, Burash, Hardley, Stone, Hythe, and Brickmerston, Post-1844 – Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
- Diocese: Winchester
- Rural Deanery: Pre-1845 – None, 1845-1856 – Southampton, Post 1855 – Fawley
- Poor Law Union: New Forest
- Hundred: Dibden Liberty
- Province: Canterbury