St Mary Bourne

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National Gazetteer (1868) - St Mary Bourne

"ST. MARY BOURNE, a parish in the hundred of Upper Evingar, Kingsclere division of the county of Southampton, 3 miles to the N.W. of Whitchurch railway station, and 5 N.E. from Andover, its post town. It includes the tythings of Binley, Bourne, Egburg, Stoke, and Week, and part of Swampton. The living is a perpetual curacy annexed to the vicarage of Hurstbourne-Priors, in the diocese of Winchester, of the joint annual value of £202, in the gift of the bishop. The tithes have been commuted for a rent-charge of £110. The church, dedicated to St. Peter, is an ancient Norman structure, with pointed arches, resting on massive pillars. It has a square embattled tower, and contains a curious font, hewn out of a block of black marble; of which there are said to be only three other examples in England. The Baptists, Wesleyans, and Primitive Methodists have chapels here. The Earl of Portsmouth is lord of the manor.

"BINLEY, a tything in the parish of St. Mary Bourne, hundred of Upper Evingar, in the county of Southampton, 6 miles to the N. of Andover."

"BOURNE, a tything in the parish of St. Mary Bourne, hundred of Upper Evingar, in the county of Southampton, 3 miles to the N.W. of Whitchurch."

"DUNLEY, a hamlet in the parish of St. Mary Bourne, hundred of Mainsbridge, in the county of Hants, 4 miles N.W. of Whitchurch."

"EGBURY, a tything in the parish of St. Mary Bourne, county Southampton, 3 miles N.W. of Whitchurch."

"STOKE, a tything in the parish of St. Mary Bourne, county Hants, 4 miles N.W. of Whitchurch."

"WEEK, a tything in the parish of St. Mary Bourne, county Hants, 3 miles W. of Whitchurch."