Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for TITCHFIELD

TITCHFIELD, a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred, in Hants. The village stands on the Titchfield river, 1¾ mile W of Fareham r. station, and 2½ NNE of the river's influx to the Solent; is an ancient place; was long a market town; gives the title of Marquis to the Duke of Portland; and has a post-office‡ under Fareham, and two annual fairs. The parish includes Sarisbury district and Crofton chapelry, and Hook, Stubbington, Swanwick and Warsash hamlets: extends to the Solent; and comprises 15,407 acres of land, and 2,105 of water. Real property, £19,625. Pop., 4,043. Houses, 822. The property is much subdivided. The manor belonged, at Domesday, to the Crown; was given, by Henry III., to Peter de Rupibus, Bishop of Winchester, for the founding of a Premonstratensian abbey; and went, at the dissolution of monasteries, to T. Wriothesley, afterwards created Earl of Southampton. The abbey stood to the N of the town, was richly endowed, and is commonly known as Place House. T. House was built by Wriothesley out of the materials of the abbey; is described, in records of the time, as having been "righte statelie;" gave sumptuous entertainment to Edward VI.; afforded refuge, after his escape from Hampton Court, to Charles I.; was the birthplace and the early residence of the heroic wife of Lord William Russell, and is now represented by a picturesque lofty gatehouse, and by some other remains. West Hill, Holly Hill, Brooklands, and the Hook are chief residences. The living is a vicarage, with Crofton chapelry, in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £230.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of W. The church is variously Norman, early English, decorated, and perpendicular. The p. curacy of Sarisbury is a separate benefice. A chapel of ease is at Crofton; and there are two Independent chapels, a national and infant school, and charities £85.—The sub-district contains three parishes and an extra-parochial tract, and is in Fareham district. Acres, 21,136. Pop., 5,224. Houses, 1,054.-The hundred is nearly identical with the sub-district, and is in Fareham division.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village, a parish, a sub-district, and a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Titchfield AP/CP       Titchfield Hundred       Titchfield SubD       Hampshire AncC
Place: Titchfield

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