MONK SHERBORNE
"MONK SHERBORNE, (or West), a parish in the hundred of Basingstoke, county
Hants, 3½ miles NW. of Basingstoke, its post town, and 5 S.E. of
Kingsclere. The village is of small extent. The inhabitants are wholly
agricultural. The parish includes the tything of Pamber. The surface is
undulating and well wooded, about two-thirds being arable, and the
remainder woodland and meadow. The soil is clayey, upon a substratum of
chalk. The impropriate tithes belong to Queen's College, Oxford. The living
is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester, value £50, in the patronage of
Queen's College, Oxford."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
[Last updated: 4th August 2003 - Brian Pears]
