Identifier: historyofhampshi04doub (find matches)
Title: A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Doubleday, Herbert Arthur, 1867-1941
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Westminster (Constable)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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he Andover and Redbridgebranch of the London and South Western Railway,which passes the village on the west. From here theground slopes upwards to the south-east, reaching aheight of 500 ft. above the ordnance datum nearWoolbury Ring in the south. South of the villageis the manor-house of Abbess Grange, the residenceof Mr. G. M. Miles-Bailey, and about a mile south-east of the latter to the north of the main road from Calcott, Sturmore Watergarden, Place Meade3(xvi cent.). In 947 King Edred granted tenMANORS mansae at Leckford to the mass priestEdulf on condition that at his deathfive mansae should remain to the abbey of St. Mary,Winchester.4 The estate subsequently called themanor of LECKFORD ABBESS (Leckford Abbatisse,xvii cent.) was in the possession of the abbey at thetime of the Domesday Survey, being then assessed at1 hide,0 and continued to be held by it until itsdissolution in 1 5 39.* In 1544 Henry VIII granted the manor to SirRichard Lyster and William Thorpe,7 the latter of
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Leckford Village Stockbridge to Basingstoke is New Farm, which onceformed part of the manor of Leckford Abbess. The soil is light and chalky with a subsoil of chalk,and the chief crops are oats, wheat, barley and roots.There are 1,375 acres of arable land, 407\ acres ofpermanent grass, and 48 acres of woods and plantationsin the parish.1 The common fields were inclosed byauthority of a Private Act of 1780. The following place-names occur :—Gascons, whom died seised in 1548, leaving a son and heirFrancis, aged fifteen.8 Francis died three years later,and his brother George, then thirteen and a halfyears old, succeeded him in due course.9 In 1567 George conveyed Leckford Abbess toWilliam Skilling and in 1569 joined with him inselling it to William Waller,10 who died in 1616,leaving two daughters and heirs, Susan wife of SirRichard Tichborne, and Charity wife of Thomas 1 Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (1905). Blue Bk. Inch Awards, 153. 3 Close, 41 Eliz. pt. xv. 4 Birch, Cart. Sax. ii, n

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