National Gazetteer (1868) - Winslade

"WINSLADE, a parish in the hundred of Upper Basingstoke, county Hants, 2½ miles S.E. of Basingstoke, and 4 from the Basingstoke railway station. It is situated on the road from Basingstoke to Alton, and includes Kempshot Park, the seat of E. W. Blunt, Esq., formerly a hunting-seat of George IV. when prince. The soil is clayey, upon a subsoil of chalk. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester, value £170. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. There is a parochial school, supported chiefly by Lord Bolton and the rector. Lord Bolton is lord of the manor. "KEMPSHOT, a tything in the parish of Winslade, upper half of the hundred of Basingstoke, county Hants, 3½ miles S.W. of Basingstoke. It was formerly the seat of the Pinks, of whom Robert was warden of New College, Oxon, in Queen Elizabeth's time. The principal residence is Kempshot House."

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