Redhill Hampshire Family History Guide

Redhill is an Ecclesiastical Parish in the county of Hampshire, created in 1839 from Havant Ancient Parish and Warblington Ancient Parish.

Alternative names: Red Hill

Parish church:

Parish registers begin:

• Parish registers: 1841
• Bishop’s Transcripts: 1851

Nonconformists include: Wesleyan Methodist

Adjacent Parishes

• Emsworth
• Warblington
• Stoughton, Sussex
• Idsworth
• Racton with Lordington, Sussex
• Westbourne, Sussex
• Havant
• Blendworth
• Bedhampton

Parish History

The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales 1870

REDHILL, a chapelry in Havant and Warblington parishes, Hants; on Langston harbour, at the bridge to Hayling island, 2 miles E by S of Havant r. station.

It was constituted in 1840; and its post town is Havant. Pop., 343. Houses, 74.

The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £140. Patron, alternately the Rector of Havant and the Rector of Warblington. The church was built in 1838.

Source: The Imperial Gazetteer of England & Wales [Wilson, John M]. A. Fullarton & Co. N. d. c. [1870-72].

Administration

• County: Hampshire
• Civil Registration District: Havant
• Probate Court: Courts of the Bishop (Episcopal Consistory) and Archdeaconry of Winchester
• Diocese: Winchester
• Rural Deanery: Droxford
• Poor Law Union: Havant
• Hundred: Bosmere; Havant Liberty
• Province: Canterbury