Hythe Hampshire Family History Guide
Hythe is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Hampshire, created in 1840 from Fawley Ancient Parish.
Alternative names: Heith
Parish church:
Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1823
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1823
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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Hythe Parish History
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
HYTHE, a village and a chapelry in Fawley parish, Hants. The village stands on the W side of Southampton water, 2½ miles S of Southampton; has a post office under Southampton; and maintains almost hourly communication with that town by steamer. A high ground above it commands a beautiful and extensive view. The chapelry was constituted in 1841. Pop., 654. Houses, 140. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £180. Patron, the Rector of Fawley. The church was built in 1823.
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