Stockbridge, Hampshire
Stockbridge | ||
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Shire county | ||
Region | ||
Country | England | |
Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
Post town | STOCKBRIDGE | |
Postcode district | SO20 | |
Dialling code | 01264 | |
Police | Hampshire and Isle of Wight | |
Fire | Hampshire and Isle of Wight | |
Ambulance | South Central | |
UK Parliament | ||
Website | Stockbridge Parish Council | |
Stockbridge is a town and civil parish in the Test Valley district of Hampshire, England. It had a population of 592 at the 2011 census. It sits astride the River Test and at the foot of Stockbridge Down.
Description
The town is situated on the
The town's street crosses the River Test, marking the border of the parishes of Stockbridge and Longstock by a low bridge of three arches rebuilt and widened in 1799.[3][4]
Five smaller river channels flow through the town. For a brief time, to provide space for fish, these were split into eight artificial ditches just above the town.[5]
The town is on a shared pedestrian/footpath, the Test Way.[6]
History and economy
The place-name 'Stockbridge' first appears in
Stockbridge witnessed the capture of Robert of Gloucester by William of Ypres in 1141.[4] Edward I stayed in Stockbridge in August 1294, as did the last Catholic King, James II, on his way to Salisbury to meet the forces of the Prince of Orange. He dined at the Swan Inn in November 1688, which still exists.[4]
The right to hold a market was awarded to the town (as the parcel known as The Street in King's Somborne manor) before 1190 in Richard I's reign,[4] reviewed and confirmed in 1200, and extended to an annual three-day fair by Henry III.[4] As in the 12th century, the town consists almost wholly of one long wide street[2][4] and it is to this characteristic that it owed its early name of Le Street. The town grew and prospered as an unincorporated mesne borough before, probably by plague, the place became almost deserted and the poverty of the remaining inhabitants was so great that the market which had been confirmed to the town by Henry V and Henry VI was discontinued.[8]
By the mid-Tudor era, under
Hampshire's four tourist Pocket Guides cover the traditional towns of Stockbridge,
Manor
In the
Then it was let which gave rents of assizes to various men, including to Joseph Foster Barham, MP, on whose death in 1832, it went to his wife who married the Earl of Clarendon to hold for their son; then sold to George G. Maitland then to Charles Warner then to Francis Hardinge and then to the more nationally famous person mentioned below. One of the mills belonged to the lord of Leckford Abbotts in 1548[4]
Buildings
Name | Grade of Listing | Century |
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Fairways The Grosvenor Hotel (frontage protrudes further than the others) | II* | 19th and an 18th cottage[12] |
The Old Town Hall | II* | 18th, 19th and 20th[13] |
Remains of Old Church | II* | cusp of 13th and 14th[14] |
Kings Head House/Lane House (includes Residence, Antiques and Salon) | II* | 17th, 18th and 19th[15] |
The Old Rectory | II | 19th[16] |
Waterlow | II | 16th and 18th[17] |
The Old Three Cups Hotel | II | 17th, 18th and 20th[18] |
Elizabeth Viney Antiques/John Robertson, Butchers | II | 17th, 18th, 19th and new glazing/door[19] |
J and L Inglis Stables of Vine Inn | II | 18th and 19th[20] |
Vine Inn | II | 18th and 19th[21] |
Mulberry | II | 18th and 19th[22] |
Stokes Restaurant (formerly N J Stokes Garage) | II | 19th, see famous people.[23] |
Stockbridge Motors, The Cottage | II | 17th, 18th and 19th[24] |
Stockbridge Antiques / Stockbridge Pharmacy / Trout Cottage | II | 18th, 19th and 20th[25] |
Stockbridge War Memorial | II | 20th[26] |
Sheriff House Hotel | II | 18th and 19th[27] |
White Hart Inn | II | 18th and 19th[28] |
Seven Gables | II | 18th, part 20th[29] |
Leet Cottage / The Greyhound | II | 18th, part 19th[30] |
Manor House | II | 16th, 17th, 18th and refronted 19th[31] |
Touchwood | II | 18th and 20th[32] |
Church of St Peter | II | 19th but some windows 13th and 15th[33] |
Education
State
Primary:
- Stockbridge Primary School[34]
Secondary:
- Test Valley School[35]
Media
Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC South and ITV Meridian. Television signals are received from either the Hannington[36] or Rowridge TV transmitters. [37]
The town is served by both BBC Radio Berkshire and BBC Radio Solent. Other local radio stations including Heart South, Capital South, Easy Radio South Coast, Nation Radio South Coast and Greatest Hits Radio Berkshire & North Hampshire.
Local newspapers are Andover Advertiser [38] and Hampshire Chronicle. [39]
Political history
Stockbridge elected two members to the unreformed House of Commons – Elizabeth I granted the two members of parliament in 1562;[4] elections proved corrupted and a private Bill for the disfranchisement of the borough was introduced in 1693, rejected at the Third Reading.[4] In 1714, Mr Steele one of the MPs (see Stockbridge) was forced out for bribery and writing seditious pamphlets.
The
Stockbridge had a railway station on the Andover & Redbridge Railway (colloquially the
Religious buildings
Only the chancel measuring about 8 metres by 5 metres, some of the windows[n 1][4] and the graveyard survive of the original parish church at the eastern end of the town, now known as Old St Peter's Church. A licence to give divine service from 1323 to 1333 was given to John Fromond, architecturally this places about a century after the likely building of the church's chancel.[4] A Victorian Gothic church, St Peter's, designed by J Colson, was built in 1866 at a central location in the High Street.[40] The Roman Catholic church of St Thomas More is a modern brick built hall off of the High Street near Stockbridge Town Hall.[41]
Sport and leisure
Due to its hatchery south of the town and many channels, Stockbridge is renowned for trout fishing.[2]
One of the UK's most exclusive clubs, described by Country Life as the dream of every fly-fisher, with exclusive fishing rights over 13 miles of prime trout breeding and fishing waters, the Houghton Fishing Club founded in 1822, for many years met socially at The Grosvenor Hotel, a current landmark by its jutting out into the pavement.[4][12][42]
Stockbridge has the Non-League football club Stockbridge F.C., which plays at The Recreation Ground.
Notable residents
- Hicks Withers-Lancashire was Lord of the Manor from a date in the 1890s until 1902, when it was sold to Mr R. P. Attenborough.[4]
- Lillie Langtry, actress, producer and socialite, lived at the property that is now NJ Stokes Garage.[23]
Notes and references
Notes
- ^ 12th-century date. One of these windows, serving as the west window of the north aisle, is of two lancet lights with a circular light over and an external label with grotesque animal drips
References
- ^ "Civil Parish population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
- ^ a b c Stockbridge Pocket Guide, 2011, Test Valley Borough Council, for distribution centres other than Andover and Romsey see Council website
- ^ "Stockbridge Bridge". Hampshire County Council. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Parishes: Stockbridge, William Page (editor), Institute of Historical Research, 1911, A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4, retrieved 8 October 2012
- ^ Test Valley B.C. Conservation Areas Archived 14 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Test Valley cycle route missing link funded, Test Valley B.C.
- ^ Eilert Ekwall, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-names, p. 444.
- ^ Duchy of Lancaster Misc. Bks, 1911, xxb folio 2b.
- ^ Duchy of Lancaster Misc. Bks, 1911, xxb folio 3b.
- ^ William White (1878) History, Gazetter and Directory of the County of Hampshire pp. 582–3
- ^ Putting Stockbridge on the map Test Valley Council
- ^ a b Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1093088)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1093093)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1302362)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1093091)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1093089)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1093090)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1093092)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1093094)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1093095)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1093096)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1093130)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ a b Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1093131)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
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- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1178416)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1093099)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1178444)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1178517)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1302390)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1302477)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1339443)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1339444)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Historic England. "Details from listed building database (1339465)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
- ^ Stockbridge Primary School Website, retrieved 5 June 2020
- ^ Test Valley School Website, retrieved 5 June 2020
- ^ "Full Freeview on the Hannington (Hampshire, England) transmitter". UK Free TV. 1 May 2004. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ "Full Freeview on the Rowridge (Isle Of Wight, England) transmitter". UK Free TV. 1 May 2004. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ "Andover Advertiser". British Papers. 25 December 2013. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ "Hampshire Chronicle". British Papers. 9 May 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ "St Peter's Church, Stockbridge". British Listed Buildings Photographs website. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
- ^ "St Thomas More, Stockbridge". hampshiredowns.org. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 May 2012. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
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