Place:Hampshire, England

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Place Information
Name
Hampshire
Alternate names
HAM     (Curious Fox: UK Counties and Shires [online] (2002). accessed 16 Dec 2002)
Hants     (Wikipedia)
Southamptonshire     (Wikipedia)
Hamptonshire     (Wikipedia)
Southampton     (Family History Library Catalog)
Type
Historic county, Administrative county, Modern county
Coordinates
51.06°N 1.31°W
Located in
England
See also
Isle of Wight, England     (Child)
Contained Places

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Abbots Worthy
Abbotstone
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Abbotts Ann
Aldershot
Alton
Ampfield
Amport
Andover
Ansty
Appleshaw
Arreton
Ashe
Ashley
Ashurst
Avington
Avon
Awbridge
Barton Stacey
Bashley
Basing
Basingstoke
Battramsley Cross
Battramsley
Baughurst
Baybridge
Beaulieu
Bedhampton
Bembridge
Bentley
Bickton
Bighton
Binstead
Bishop's Sutton
Bishop's Waltham
Bishopstoke
Bisterne
Bitterne
Boarhunt
Boldre
Bonchurch
Bordon
Botley
Bournemouth ( - 1997 )
Bowcombe
Brading
Bradley
Braishfield
Bramdean
Bramley
Bramshaw
Bramshill
Bransbury
Bransgore
Breamore
Brighstone
Brockenhurst
Brook
Broughton
Brown Candover
Buckler's Hard
Burghclere
Bursledon
Cadnam
Calbourne
Calshot
Carisbrooke
Chale
Chalton
Chandler's Ford
Chawton
Chilbolton
Chilcomb
Chillerton
Chilton Candover
Chilworth
Chineham
Church Crookham
Clanville
Cliddesden
Colemore
Coombe
Corhampton
Cowes
Cowplain
Crawley
Crondall
Crow Hill Top
Crow Hill
Crow
Crux Easton
Damerham
Dartmouth
Deane
Denmead
Dibden
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Droxford
Dummer
Dunbridge
East Dean
East Meon
East Stratton
East Tytherley
East Wellow
East Woodhay
East Worldham
Easton
Ecchinswell
Ellingham
Ellisfield
Elson
Empshott
Emsworth
Enham Alamein
Eversley
Exbury
Exton
Faccombe
Fareham
Farleigh Wallop
Farnborough
Fawley
Fleet
Fordingbridge
Foxcotte
Freefolk
Freshwater
Fullerton
Fyfield
Gatcombe
Godshill
Goodworth Clatford
Gosport
Grayshott
Great Shoddesden
Greatham
Hamble
Hamble-le-Rice
Hambledon
Hannington
Harbridge
Hardley
Hart Plain
Hartley Mauditt
Hartley Wespall
Havant ( 500 - )
Headbourne Worthy
Headley
Heath End
Heckfield
Hedge End
Highclere
Hill Head
Hinton Ampner
Holbury
Holybourne
Hook
Hordle
Horndean
Houghton
Hound
Hursley
Hurstbourne Priors
Hurstbourne Tarrant
Hythe
Ibsley
Idsworth
Itchen Abbas
Itchen Stoke
Johnson's Corner
Kilmeston
Kimpton
King's Somborne
King's Worthy
Kings Worthy
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Kingston
Langley
Langstone
Lasham
Laverstoke
Leckford
Lee-on-the-Solent
Linkenholt
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Liss
Litchfield
Little Ann
Little Shoddesden
Little Somborne
Lockerley
Locks Heath
Long Sutton
Longstock
Lovedean
Lower Burgate
Lower Farringdon
Lower Froyle
Lymington
Lyndhurst
Mapledurwell
Marchwood
Martyr Worthy
Mattingley
Medina
Medstead
Meon
Meonstoke
Micheldever
Middleton
Milford on Sea
Minstead
Monk Sherbourne
Monxton
Mottisfont
Mottistone
Nately Scures
Neatham
Nether Wallop
Netley
New Alresford
New Milton
Newnham
Newton Stacey
Newton Valence
Niton
North Baddesley
North Charford
North Gorley
North Hayling
North Waltham
Northington
Northwood
Nursling
Nutley
Oakhanger
Oakley
Odiham
Old Alresford
Old Basing
Old Milton
Otterbourne
Otterwood
Outwick
Over Wallop
Overton
Ower
Penton Grafton
Penton Mewsey
Petersfield
Pilley
Popham
Portchester
Portsmouth ( 900 - )
Preston Candover
Purbrook
Quarley
Ringwood
Ripley
Rockbourne
Rockford
Romsey ( 500 - )
Ropley
Rownhams
Ryde
Saint Helens
Sandown
Segensworth
Selborne
Shalden
Shalfleet
Shanklin
Sherborne Saint John
Sherfield English
Sherfield on Loddon
Shipton Bellinger
Shirrell Heath
Shorwell
Silchester
Soberton
Sopley
South Baddesley
South Gorley
South Hayling
South Warnborough
Southampton ( 1992 - )
Southsea
Spanish Green
St Mary Bourne
Steep
Steventon
Stockbridge
Stoke Charity
Stratfield Saye
Stratfield Turgis
Stubbington
Sutton Scotney
Swampton
Swanwick
Sway
Sydmonton
Tadley
Tangley
Thorley
Thruxton
Tichborne
Timsbury
Titchfield
Totton and Eling
Totton
Tufton
Tunworth
Turgis Green
Twyford
Up Nately
Upper Burgate
Upper Canterton
Upper Clatford
Upper Farringdon
Upper Froyle
Upton
Ventnor
Vernham Dean
Walhampton
Wallington
Warblington
Warnford
Warsash
Waterlooville
West Meon
West Tisted
West Tytherley
West Wellow
Weston Patrick
Whippingham
Whitchurch
Whiteley
Wickham
Winchester ( 500 - )
Winchfield
Winslade
Wonston
Woodmancott
Wootton Saint Lawrence
Wootton
Wroxall
Yarmouth
Yateley
Yaverland
Unknown
Abbots-Ann
Abshot House
Alverstoke
Andwell
Anstey
Ashley-Walk
Ashmansworth
Barton
Beaurepaire
Beauworth
Bentworth
Binstead (near Ryde)
Bishops-Sutton
Bishops-Waltham
Bittern
Blackfield
Blackmoor
Blendworth
Bossington
Brambridge
Bramshott
Brockhampton
Broomy-Walk
Broxhead Warren
Buckholt
Bucklershard
Bullington
Buriton
Burley
Cadlands
Candover-Preston
Catherington
Catisfield
Charlton
Cheriton
Christchurch
Clanfield
Colbury
Colden-Common
Coldrey
Combe
Compton
Copythorne
Cove
Crofton
Crookham
Crowdhill
Curdridge
Denny Lodge
Dockenfield
Droxfield
Dunwood
Durley
East Cowes
East Hoe
East Tisted
Eastrop
Eldon
Eling
Elvetham
Emery-Down
Empshot
Ewhurst
Ewshott
Faringdon
Farley-Chamberlayne
Farlington
Forton
Foxcott
Freefolk Manor
Freemantle
Frenchmoor
Froxfield
Froyle
Godsfield
Grateley
Great Salterns
Grewell
Hale Common
Hale
Hartley-Wintney
Hatherden
Haven-Street
Hawkley
Hawley
Hayling
Headbourn-Worthy
Herriard
Highcliffe
Hill
Hinton Admiral
Holdenhurst
Hunton
Hyde
Itchel Manor
Itchin-Abbas
Kings-Sombourn
Kingsley
Knight's Enham
Lainston
Langrish
Leigh
Limerston
Little Sombourn
Littleton
Longparish
Maplederwell
Mapledurham
Marwell Hall
Merston
Michelmersh
Millbrook
Milton
Minley
Mitchelmersh
Monk-Sherborne
Moordown
Morestead
Mortimer
Mortimer-West-End
Mountjoy
New Forest
Newchurch
Newtown
Newtown-near-Newbury
North Eling
North Stoneham
Oakfield
Osborne house
Ovington
Owslebury
Pamber
Parkhurst
Pennington
Pittleworth
Plaitford ( 1932 - Present )
Pokesdown
Porchfield
Portsdown
Portsea
Portswood
Priors-Dean
Privett
Redbridge
Rhinefield
Rotherwick
Rowner
Sarisbury
Shawford
Sheet
Sherborne-Monk
Sherborne-St. Peter
Sherfield-upon-Loddon
Shidfield
Shirley
South Charford
South Stoneham
South Tidworth
Southwick
Sparkford
Sparsholt
St. Cross
St. Faith
St. Lawrence
St. Mary-Extra
St. Nicholas-Castlehold
Standford
Swanmore
Swarraton
Totlands Bay
Toyd-Farm-With-Allenford
Upham
Upton-Gray
Warboys
Weeke
West Worldham
Westend
Weston
Weston-Corbett
Wherwell
Whitsbury
Whitway
Whitwell
Wicor
Widley
Wield
Winnall
Wolverton
Wood-Green
Woodcott
Woodland
Woolston
Woolton-Hill
Worting
Wymering
Watching Page
Dallan

source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog
the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

Hampshire, sometimes historically Southamptonshire or Hamptonshire, (abbr. Hants) is a county on the south coast of England. The county borders (clockwise from West), Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, Surrey and West Sussex. The county has an area of 1,455 square miles (3,769 km²) and at its widest points is approximately 55 miles (90 km) east-west and 40 miles (65 km) north-south. The county town is Winchester situated at 51°03′35″N, 1°18′36″W. The 2001 census gave the population of the administrative county as 1.24 million; the ceremonial county also includes the cities of Portsmouth and Southampton, which are administratively independent, and has a total population of 1.6 million. Christchurch and Bournemouth, within the historic borders of the county, were made part of the non-metropolitan county of Dorset in 1974.

Hampshire is a popular holiday area, with tourist attractions including its many seaside resorts, the maritime area in Portsmouth, and the motor museum at Beaulieu. The New Forest National Park lies within the borders, as does a large area of the South Downs, which is also scheduled to become a National Park. Hampshire has a long maritime history and two of England's largest ports lie on its coast. The county is famed as home of the writers Jane Austen and Charles Dickens.

History

the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia

The chalk downland of the South Downs and southern edges of Salisbury Plain were settled in the neolithic, and these settlers built hill forts such as Winklebury and may have farmed the valleys of Hampshire. Hampshire was part of an area named Gwent or Y Went by the Celts, which also covered areas of Somerset and Wiltshire. In the Roman invasion of Britain, Hampshire was one of the first areas to fall to the invading forces. The county was occupied by Jutish tribes until Saxon times. Hampshire was one of the first Saxon shires, recorded in 755, but for two centuries represented the western end of Saxon England, as advances into Dorset and Somerset were fought off by the Britons. After the Saxons advanced west Hampshire became the centre of the Kingdom of Wessex, and many Saxon kings are buried at Winchester. A statue in Winchester celebrates the powerful King Alfred, who stabilised the region in the 9th century.

After the Norman Conquest the county was favoured by Norman kings who established the New Forest as a hunting forest. The county was recorded in the Domesday Book divided into 44 hundreds. From the 12th century the ports grew in importance, fuelled by trade with the continent, wool and cloth manufacture in the county, and the fishing industry, and a shipbuilding industry was established.

Over several centuries a series of castles and forts were constructed along the coast of the Solent to defend the harbours at Southampton and Portsmouth. These include the Norman Portchester Castle which overlooks Portsmouth Harbour, and a series of forts built by Henry VIII including Hurst Castle, situated on a sand spit at the mouth of the Solent, Calshot Castle on another spit at the mouth of Southampton Water, and Netley Castle. Southampton and Portsmouth remained important harbours when rivals, such as Poole and Bristol declined, as they are amongst the few locations that combine shelter with deep water. Southampton has been host to many famous ships, including the Mayflower and the Titanic, the latter being staffed largely by natives of Southampton.

Hampshire played a large role in World War II due to its large Royal Navy harbour at Portsmouth, the army camp at Aldershot and the military Netley Hospital on Southampton Water, as well as its proximity to the army training ranges on Salisbury Plain and Purbeck. Supermarine, the designers of the Spitfire and other military aircraft, were based in Southampton, which led to severe bombing of the city. Aldershot remains one of the British Army's main permanent camps.


The county has in the past been called "Southamptonshire" and appears as such on some Victorian maps. The name of the administrative county was changed from 'County of Southampton' to 'County of Hampshire' on April 1, 1959. The short form of the name, often used in postal addresses, is Hants. Hampshire is often abbreviated in written form to Hants and which sometimes gives rise to puzzlement. The abbreviated form is derived from the Old English Hantum plus Scir (meaning a district governed from the settlement now known as Southampton) and the Anglo-Saxons called it Hamtunschire. At the time of the Domesday Book (1086) this was compressed to Hantescire.

The Isle of Wight has traditionally been treated as part of Hampshire for some purposes, but has been administratively independent for over a century, obtaining a county council of its own in 1890. The Isle of Wight became a full ceremonial county in 1974. Apart from a shared police force and health authority there are now no formal administrative links between the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, though many organisations still combine Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

The towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch also fall within the traditional county of Hampshire, but were ceded to Dorset in the local government reorganisation of 1974.

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