Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SOBERTON

SOBERTON, a village and a parish in Droxford district, Hants. The village stands 4 miles E by S of Bishops-Waltham r. station, and has a post-office under Southampton. The parish contains also the hamlets of Kingsmead, Newtown, and Southend, the liberty of Wickham-Lodge, and the tything of East Hoe. Acres, 5,814. Real property, £5,088. Pop., 1,136. Houses, 249. The property is much subdivided. The living is a p. curacy, annexed to Meon-Stoke. The church is early English and good. There is a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Soberton CP/Ch       Droxford RegD/PLU       Hampshire AncC
Place: Soberton

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