RINGWOOD
"RINGWOOD, a parish, post and market town in the hundred of Ringwood, county
Hants, 29 miles S.W. of Winchester, 20 S.W. of Southampton, and 18½ from
Salisbury. It is a junction station on the Salisbury section of the London
and South-Western railway. It comprises the hamlets of Crow, High Town,
Upper and Lower Kingston, and Poulner, with the extra parochial liberties
of Burley Lodge, Godshill, Linwood, and Woodgreen. It is situated on the
border of the New Forest, on the eastern bank of the river Avon, which,
after dividing eastward into three branches, over each of which is a stone
bridge, again unites its waters into a broad expanse, with an island in the
middle, crossed by a causeway. Ringwood was a place of importance at a very
early period, and was originally named Regnum, or the town of the Regni,
mentioned by Antoninus. It was occupied both by the Romans and Britons as a
military post, and was called Renoved and Regnewood by the Saxons, who set
much store by it."
[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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