Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for STOCKBRIDGE

STOCKBRIDGE, a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district, in Hants. The town stands on the river Test and on the Andover railway, 7 miles S of Andover; was the place where the Empress Maud was overtaken by Stephen's soldiers, after her escape from Winchester castle; sent two members to parliament from the time of Elizabeth, till disfranchised by the reform act of 1832; consists of one long street; and has a post-office‡ under Winchester, a hotel, a r. station with telegraph, a town hall, a police station, a church rebuilt in 1867, an Independent chapel, a parochial school, a workhouse, two training establishments for race-horses, races near Danebury hill in June, a weekly market on Thursday, and a lamb fair on 10 July.—The parish comprises 1,115 acres. Real property, £2,611. Pop. in 1851, 1,066; in 1861, 935. Houses, 198. The manor belongs to G. G. Maitland, Esq. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £198. Patron, Lady Barker Mill.—The sub-district contains 9 parishes. Acres, 20,649. Pop., 3,577. Houses, 758.—The district includes also Broughton sub-district, and comprises 45,343 acres. Poor rates in 1863, £5,316. Pop. in 1851, 7,480; in 1861, 7,286. Houses, 1,538. Marriages in 1863, 46; births, 246,-of which 18 were illegitimate; deaths, 134,-of which 36 were at ages under 5 years, and 4 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 471; births, 2,089; deaths, 1,430. The places of worship, in 1851, were 14 of the Church of England, with 2,028 sittings; 1 of Independents, with 258 s.; 3 of Baptists, with 465 s.; 1 of Quakers, with 12 s.; 3 of Wesleyans, with 414 s.; 5 of Primitive Methodists, with 164 s.; 3 of the Wesleyan Association, with 394 s.; and 1 undefined, with 100 The schools were 13 public day-schools, with 854 scholars; 5 private day-schools, with 92 s.; and 16 Sunday schools, with 798 s.


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

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Feature Description: "a small town, a parish, a sub-district, and a district"   (ADL Feature Type: "cities")
Administrative units: Stockbridge Ch/CP       Stockbridge SubD       Stockbridge RegD/PLU       Hampshire AncC
Place: Stockbridge

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