National Gazetteer (1868) - East Worldham

"EAST WORLDHAM, a parish in the hundred of Alton, county Hants, 9 miles S.W. of Farnham, and 2; S.E. of Alton. About two-thirds of the land are arable, and the remainder pasture and hop plantations, with about 90 acres of woodland. The surface is undulating, and the soil loamy upon the malm rock, except where a strong cold clay. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester, value £145, in the patronage of Magdalen College, Oxford. There is a parochial school for boys and girls. Lord Sherborne is lord of the manor."

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868) - Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003]