Sketches of Hampshire; embracing the architectural antiquities, topography, etc. of country adjacent to the river Itchen; with plates of seats, and of the tesselated pavement at Bramdean, vignettes ... and a map

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Conserved under the Adopt a Book Appeal (Sfilss Ipftaricm € Jt .Gartovrutfot' . &£2H '~ %7z*'n*kA >jfi£acc , Sce&or-a. Æ&u,; Zw&km SKETCHES OF HAMPSHIRE; EMBRACING THE ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES, TOPOGRAPHY, &c. OF COUNTRY ADJACENT TO THE RIVER ITCHEN; WITH PLATES OF SEATS, ' AND OF THE TESSELATED PAVEMENT AT BRAMDEAN ; VIGNETTES, REPRESENTING THE OBJECTS MOST WORTHY OF ATTENTION ; AND A MAP OF THE COUNTRY VISITED IN THE SEVERAL MURNING RAMBLFS. BY THE LATE JOHN DUTHY, ESQ. MANY YEARS A COUNTY MAGISTRATE, AND ONE OF HIS MAJESTY'S DEPUTY LIEUTENANTS. WINCHESTER : JACOB AND JOHNSON, COUNTY NEWSPAPER OFFICE. LONDON: LONGMAN AND CO. SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, WHITTAKER AND CO AND IJOOPER. Ill HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON, LORD LIEUTENANT; TO THE REPRESENTATIVES IN PARLIAMENT FOR HAMPSHIRE ; AND TO THE MAGISTRATES OF THE COUNTY; THIS WORK IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY THEIR OBLIGE-u AND OBEDIENT SERVANTS THE PUBLISHERS.

WINCHESTER. PREFACE, The following sheets are submitted to the public under considerable disadvantages. It was the original intention of the highly respected author, under whose name they appear, to have ascertained, by this essay, the quantum of encouragement which a work of the kind would obtain ; and, if this had proved adequate to the expenses, to have proceeded with a similar review of the other Rivers of Hampshire, so as to embrace the entire County. However, circumstances of domestic affliction, and a rapidly declining state of health, interfered with his plan before the initial volume was completed. Much is it to be regretted, that a mind of such unusual vigour, and attainments of so eminent and varied a character, should have been thus unpropitiously arrested in their bearing upon an object equally interesting to the curious, and valuable to society at large.

But the labour of the author will not have been thrown away. Many, in the days of his mental and physical activity, have had opportunities of appreciating the accuracy of his general information, the clearness of his judgment, the refine ment of his taste, and the pleasing vivacity of his conversation. These, and they are not a few, will doubtless welcome with cor diality a tardy, though perhaps an imperfect monument of his talent. To them the following pages may possibly suggest— " Invenies aninii pignora raulta mei. ' VI

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. With reference to a more extended circulation, it has been deemed advisable to render this first part co-extensive with its original design. Accordingly, after much unavoidable loss of time, the publishers have availed themselves of the re searches and talents of a gentleman fully qualified for the task entrusted to him ; and readers will decide how far the por tion of the work for which he is responsible* agrees with the commencement. Further apology will, it is hoped, be allowed for omissions in the Appendix. Some documents referred to by the deceased author have not, after persevering search, been obtained ; and if, in the illustrations, any defect be noticed, the publishers respectfully assure their friends that some extraordinary ob stacle must have arisen to frustrate their best endeavours to fill up the outline traced for them.

How far they may be enabled to prosecute the projected extension of the work, the reception of this volume will shewr. Winchester, 1839. * Beginning at Section vi. page 327. A considerable collection of materials for the sketches of Hursley and North Baddesley was left by the deceased author, but not in a state for publication. As far as possible, those materials have been incorporated into the sketches given in thc following sheets. The designs for the illustrations (with the exception of South Stoneham, by Mr. O. B. Carter, of Winchester) were furnished by a gentleman residing in the country described. TABLE OF CONTENTS.

Section I

paoe PAGE List of the Masters of St. Cross . . 265 First Ramble. The Brooks which form the main stream ofthe Itchen, to their union below Alresford . . 1 St. Cross continued 277 Twyford 297 Owslebury 305

Section II

Morestead 319 Kilmiston 13 Bishop's Stoke 320 Hinton Ampner 17 f Bramdean 28 Otterbourne 323 Cheriton 46

SECTION VI.

Tichborne 65 Fourth Ramble. From Woodmill, near the mouth of the Itchen, by the Swathling Brook, through North Stoneham, North Baddesley, and Hursley, to Winchester, and back 327 Alresford 83 . Bishop's Sutton 114 i Bighton 121 Godsfield 127

SECTION VII.

The Candovers 133 Hursley 333 Northington and Swarraton . . . . 143 Compton 358 Abbotstone and Itchen Stoke . . . . 155 North Baddesley 363 The Stonehams 376

Section III

Second Ramble. Banks of the Itchen from Alresford to Winchester ; and the City of Winchester 163

SECTION VIII.

Fifth Ramble. From Woodmill down the lower part of the Itchen, to Itchen Ferry 404

Section IV

St. Denys 408 Ovington 195 Clausentum 415 Avington 198 Itchen Ferry 424 Easton 201 Winnall 214

SECTION IX.

TheWorthys 219 Sixth Ramble. Southampton .. 429 Itchen Abbas 232 Concluding paragraph 459