WHERWELL
"WHERWELL, a parish, in the hundred of the same name, county Hants, 3½ miles
S.E. of Andover, and 5 N.E. of Stockbridge. The parish, which includes the
tythings of Fullerton and Westover, is intersected by the small rivers Test
and Ande or Anton, which last falls into the Redbridge and Andover canal.
There are some traces of a Benedictine nunnery, founded and amply endowed
by Queen Elfrida in 986, in expiation of the murder of Edward the Martyr,
an event commemorated by the stone cross in Wherwell Wood. Its revenue at
the time of the Dissolution was returned at £403 12s. 10d., and the site
given to the Wests. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Winchester,
value with those of Bullington and Tufton annexed, £301. The church of the
Holy Cross is old. There is a chapel for Wesleyans, and a village school. A
fair is held on the 24th September for sheep."
[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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