Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for LONGSTOCK

LONGSTOCK, a parish in Stockbridge district, Hants; on the river Test or Anton, and on the Andover railway, 1 mile N of Stockbridge. It has a post office under Winchester. Acres, 2,962. Real property, £3,393. Pop., 445. Houses, 104. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Lady Barker Mill. An eminence here is called Longstock hill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £315.* Patron, Lady B. Mill. The church is ancient, and was repaired in 1846. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and charities £15.


(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Longstock AP/CP       Stockbridge RegD/PLU       Hampshire AncC
Place: Longstock

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