Marchwood Hampshire Family History Guide
Marchwood is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Hampshire, created in 1846 from a chapelry in Eling Ancient Parish.
Other places in the parish include: Decoy Pond.
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Parish registers begin:
- Parish registers: 1843
- Bishop’s Transcripts: 1843
Nonconformists include: Independent/Congregational
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Adjacent Parishes
- Dibden
- Southampton All Saints
- Southampton St Laurence with St John
- New Forest
- Lyndhurst
- Eling
- Millbrook
Parish History
A History of the County of Hampshire 1911
Marchwood includes that part of the ancient parish of Eling which lies low at the mouth of the River Test and south-east of the town of Eling. It contains 1,599 acres of land, of which 4 acres are covered with water, 430½ acres are arable land, 829¾ are pasture land and 181 are woodland. The village lies along the road from Eling to Dibden. There are Government powder magazines and Metropolitan Police barracks.
Byams House, north-east of the village, was rebuilt in 1878, and was for many years the seat of Mr. William Gascoigne Roy, J.P., to whose family it had belonged for over a century. It now belongs to Major John H. Grime Lloyd. Marchwood Park, formerly the property of the Holloway family, but now belonging to Mrs. Ross Porter, is in the south of the parish, and lies partly in Dibden. The soil is clay and sand.
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.
The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870
MARCHWOOD, a village and a chapelry in Eling parish, Hants. The village stands on Southamptonwater, 2¼ miles SW of Southampton r. station; is a fishing-place and a coast-guard station; and has a post office under Southampton, and extensive powder magazines. The chapelry was constituted in 1843. Pop., 1,185. Houses, 228. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £121. Patron, H. Holloway, Esq. The church is a modern edifice, of white brick and stone.
Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].
Parish Records
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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