PETERSFIELD
"PETERSFIELD, a parish, post and market town, and parliamentary borough, in
the lower half hundred of Finch Dean, county Hants, 17 miles S.E. of
Winchester, and 54 S.W. of London, and a station on the South-Western
railway. It is situated on the old road from London to Portsmouth, and near
the river Rother. It is a polling-place for the county elections, and a
petty sessions town; also the seat of a new County Court and superintendent
registry. The borough first returned members to parliament in the 35th year
of Edward VI., from which period it returned two members, until the passing
of the Reform Act, by which it was deprived of one, and the privilege of
voting extended to the £10 householders of the old borough, and of the
adjoining district."
[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of
Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]
[Last updated: 4th August 2003 - Brian Pears]
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