Place:Hook near Fareham, Hampshire, England

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Hook is a village in the District of Fareham, in the southern part of Hampshire, England. Since 1974 it is part of the modern civil parish of Hook with Warsash.

The civil parish was created in 1894 from part of Titchfield civil parish and was located in Fareham Rural District until 1932. In 1932 the civil parish was abolished and the area was transferred to Fareham civil parish which became Fareham Urban District at this time.

Hook has now largely been consumed within the neighbouring community of Warsash as part of the larger Hamble-based conurbation that includes Hook, Warsash, Locks Heath, Park Gate and Sarisbury.

The relationship between Hook and Warsash is reflected in the local names of Hook-with-Warsash School and Hook-with-Warsash Nature Reserve.

History

For more information, see the EN Wikipedia article Hook, Fareham. Includes the story of Hook up to 1894.

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