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A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Abbots Barton from John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles of 1887:
- "Abbots Barton, seat, near Winchester, Hants."
Abbots Barton was created as a civil parish in 1894 from Winchester St. Bartholomew Hyde, a large parish to the north of the Winchester Muncipal Borough. The new parish was part of the Winchester Rural District. Although it was reduced in size in 1900 and again in 1932, it continued to be a civil parish right up until 1974 when the whole area became part of the non-metropolitan district of the City of Winchester. (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time)
Research Tips
- Victoria County History of Hampshire, volume 5, introductory chapter on Winchester and those following.
- 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):
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- A group of maps of the post-1974 municipal districts or boroughs of Hampshire on Wikipedia Commons
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