Place:Wonston, Hampshire, England

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Wonston is a village and civil parish in the City of Winchester District of Hampshire, England. The village had an estimated population of 1,280 in the UK census of 2001 and 1,446 in the census of 2011.

Wonston parish included the manors of Cranborne and Norton in Wonston and the hamlet of Sutton Scotney. In 1933 the neighbouring parishes of Stoke Charity and Hunton were merged into the Wonston. (Source: A Vision of Britain through Time)

Wonston was located in the Hundred of Buddlesgate and, prior to 1834, in the Barton Stacey Hundred. The Manor of Wonston is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as having belonged to the Bishop of Winchester. It was part of Winchester Rural District from 1894 until 1974.

Sutton Scotney has a population of more than 200, and grows watercress. Its best-known resident was J. Arthur Rank who took the name of the village as part of his title when he was ennobled.

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