Antiquarian and Topographical

SKETCHES

OF

HAMPSHIRE,

BY

HENRY MOODY

Not proud Olympus yields a nobler sight,
Though gods assembled grace his towering height,
Than what our more humble mountains offer here,
Where in their blessings, all those gods appear.
See Pan with flocks, with fruits Pomona crown'd,
Here blushing Flora paints th' enamel'd ground;
Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand,

And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.-POPE.

PUBLISHED ALSO BY SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, LONDON;
AND JACOB AND JOHNSON, HIGH STREET,
WINCHESTER.

1846.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE following Sketches, which were originally written for, and appeared in the Hampshire Advertiser Newspaper, have assumed their present form in compliance with the expressed wishes of many of their readers. Since their first publication, they have been carefully revised, and extended, so as to embrace a notice of every parish within the limits of the county.

The Author freely admits that a more extended description, of the Antiquities and Topography of Hampshire, than that contained in the following pages, is desirable, if not required, since, there is hardly a County in England of its extent, population, and importance, which is so sadly deficient of a good History; but, as his object is to offer to the inhabitants of Hampshire, in general, the means of acquiring a knowledge of the places and things with which they may be familiar, he was induced to prefer the present condensed and cheap form, to that of a more extended, and consequently more expensive, notice.

From a desire of not unnecessarily extending the work and of interrupting the subject, the Author has, in many instances, omitted to mention the Authorities for the facts which he narrates, and he here takes the opportunity of acknowledging that he has derived many of his statements from Leland's Itinerary, Camden's Magna Brittania, Warner's Hampshire, Sir Richard Worsley's History of the Isle of Wight, the Rt. Rev. Dr. Milner's History of Winchester, Bayley and Britton's Beauties of England and Wales, the Sketches of Hampshire by the late John Duthy, esq. and from several of the local papers, read at the respective meetings, at Winchester, of the British Archæological Association, and the Archæological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. The statistical tables, at the commencement of the several Sketches, are taken from the Returns made in compliance with a recent order of the Court of Quarter Sessions.

XII. Basingstoke and Neighbourhood

XIII. The North Western Extremity

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