Alton
"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."[From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
Cemeteries
- St Lawrence, Church Street, Church of England
Church Records
- Alton Baptist Church, Grove Road, Baptist
- All Saints, Butts Road, Church of England
- St Lawrence, Church Street, Church of England
- St Peter, Wellhouse Road, Church of England, Beech
- The Abbey of our Lady & St John, Abbey Road, Wivelrod, Church of England, Beech
- Congregational Church, Normandy Street, Congregational Church
- Alton Methodist Church, Draymans Way, Methodist
- Brethrens Meeting Room, Vicarage Hill, Other
- Harvest Church (at the Alton Maltings), Maltings Close, Other
- Quaker Meeting House, Church Street, Quaker Meeting House
- St Mary, Normandy Street, Roman Catholic
- Salvation Army, Amery Street, Salvation Army
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Gazetteers
- A transcription of the section for Alton from
the National Gazetteer (1868).
- The entry for Alton from
A Vision of Britain through time.
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History
Maps
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