Place:Curbridge, Hampshire, England

Curbridge is a village in Hampshire, England. The village is now part of the similar sounding civil parish of Curdridge and also part of the post-1974 Owslebury and Curdridge ward of the Winchester District (City of Winchester) non-metropolitan district of Hampshire County Council.

Curbridge was originally a portion of Titchfield parish until 1932 when Titchfield was abolished and divided into two parts--the other part being absorbed into Fareham Urban District.

In 1932 Curbridge became a civil parish in Droxford Rural District. Its lands were taken from Sarisbury (777 acres) and Titchfield parishes (2719 acres), both of which were abolished at that time. It 1952 Curbridge itself was abolished and divided to enlarge the parish of Curdridge with 774 acres and the parish of Wickham with 2719 acres. (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time)

Research Tips

• 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):

• The Hundreds of Hampshire, a map from HMSO Boundary Commissioners, dated 1832
• Hampshire showing parishes in their Rural Districts as of 1900, a map from the Ordnance Survey
• Hampshire showing parishes in their Rural Districts after the alterations of 1932, a map from the Ordnance Survey

• A group of maps of the post-1974 municipal districts or boroughs of Hampshire on Wikipedia Commons