Place:Beauworth, Hampshire, England

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NameBeauworth
TypeChapelry, Civil parish
Coordinates51.031°N 1.179°W
Located inHampshire, England
See alsoCheriton, Hampshire, Englandecclesiastical parish in which it was a chapelry
Fawley Hundred, Hampshire, Englandancient county division in which it was located
Alresford Rural, Hampshire, Englandrural district in which it was located 1894-1932
Winchester Rural, Hampshire, Englandrural district in which it was located 1932-1974
Winchester District, Hampshire, Englanddistrict municipality covering the area since 1974
source: Family History Library Catalog

Beauworth is a village and civil parish in the Winchester District or City of Winchester of Hampshire, about eight miles east of central Winchester. As of 2013, Beauworth has a small population of 97.

Beauworth was a chapelry in the neighbouring parish of Cheriton and became a separate civil parish in the middle of the 19th century.

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Research Tips

  • Victoria County History of Hampshire, volume 3, chapter on Cheriton contains a paragraph of Beauworth.
  • GENUKI has a list of archive holders in Hampshire including the Hampshire Record Office, various museums in Portsmouth and Southhampton, the Isle of Wight Record Office and Archives.
  • The Hampshire Online Parish Clerk project has a large collection of transcriptions from Parish Registers across Hampshire.
  • A listing of all the Registration Districts in England and Wales since their introduction in 1837 together with tables listing the parishes that were part of each district and the time period covered, along with detailed notes on changes of parish name, mergers, etc. Do respect the copyright on this material.
  • The three-storey City Museum in Winchester covers the Iron Age and Roman periods, the Middle Ages, and the Victorian period.
  • Volumes in The Victoria County History Series are available for Hampshire through British History Online. There are three volumes and the county is covered by parishes within the old divisions of "hundreds".
A collection of maps on the A Vision of Britain through Time website illustrating the English county of Hampshire over the period 1832-1932 (the last two are expandible):
  • A group of maps of the post-1974 municipal districts or boroughs of Hampshire on Wikipedia Commons
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