Place:Damerham, Hampshire, England

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Damerham was transferred from Wiltshire to Hampshire in 1895.

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Damerham has been a village and civil parish in Hampshire, England since 1895. Previously it was situated in Wiltshire. The nearest town is Fordingbridge. Damerham was an important Anglo-Saxon manor mentioned in the will of Alfred the Great. By the time of the Domesday Book of 1086, Damerham was a major settlement in the possession of Glastonbury Abbey. Today Damerham is a rural village on the River Allen.

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Damerham.

A Vision of Britain through Time provides the following description of Damerham from John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales of 1870-72:

"DAMERHAM (South), a parish and a hundred in Wilts. The parish is in Fordingbridge [registration] district [of Hampshire]; lies on an affluent of the river Avon, at the boundary with Dorset, 3 miles W of Fordingbridge [railway] station, and 7½ NW by N of Ringwood; includes the tythings of East End, North End, and South End; and has a post office, of the name of Damerham, under Salisbury. Acres: 4,310. Real property, with Martin and Whichbury: £9,674. Population: 697. Houses: 149. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value: 320. Patron: the Earl of Chichester. The church is good; and there are chapels for Independents and Baptists."

Research Tips

• Victoria County History of Hampshire, volume 4, chapter on South Damerham.
• 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
• From this Ancestry page you can browse the Wiltshire parishes which have parish register transcripts online, quite often from very early dates. However, reading the early ones requires skill and patience. Transcriptions should also be in FamilySearch.
• A further collection of online source references will be found on the county page for Wiltshire.