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Alton, Hampshire, England

Alton is 22 miles north east of Southampton, Hampshire. Grid ref SU710390. Postal code GU34 2xx.

Modern map of the area - link to Multimap

Subjects on this page

• Church Records
• Gazetteers
• Genealogy
• History

Church Records

• Hampshire Record Office Parish Registers:
  Alton - All Saints - Chr 1875-1993, Mar 1875-1994, Bur 1882-1998
  Alton - St Lawrence - Chr 1615-1993, Mar 1629-1979, Bur 1616-1975
  Alton - St Lawrence (Union Workhouse) – Chr 1923-1925

• Genuki Hampshire - Churches and their Records

Gazetteers

• A transcription of the section for Alton from the National Gazetteer (1868) by Colin Hinson ©2003.

"ALTON, a parish and market town in the hundred, division, and union of Alton, in the county of Hants, 17 miles to the N.E. of Winchester, and 47 miles from London, or 49 miles by the London and South Western railway. It is a place of great antiquity, as its name, signifying Old Town, indicates. A Roman cemetery probably existed here, as urns and other funeral relics have been lately dug up in the town. It was called by the Saxons Aweltuna, and was a royal demesne in the reign of Alfred. It is supposed by some to be the Æthelingadene, where a battle with the Danes was fought, in the year 1001. It returned a representative to one parliament of Edward I. and to one of Edward II. It was in the wood, a few miles from Alton, that Edward I., when prince, vanquished and made prisoner the outlaw, Adam de Gurdon." [Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]

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Genealogy

• Genealogical Sources for Hampshire is an 88 page document from Hampshire Genealogy Society (pdf - 260 kb)
  they also provide Genealogy and Local History - useful links

History

• Historic Photographs, Alton, Hampshire

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