Dibden
| Dibden | |
| Hampshire | |
|---|---|
 All Saints, Dibden | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SU409079 |
| Location: | 50°52’8"N, 1°25’11"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | Southampton |
| Postcode: | SO45 |
| Dialling code: | 023 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | New Forest |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
New Forest East |
Dibden is a small village in Hampshire, which is dominated by the nearby settlements of Hythe and Dibden Purlieu. It stands on the eastern edge of the New Forest in the south-west of the county, within a valley which runs down to Southampton Water.
History
The name "Dibden" is from the Old English deopdenu which means "deep valley", although the village is only slightly lower than the land around it.[1] It is listed in the Domesday Book of 1086 as "Depedene" and was held by Odo of Winchester.[2] Before 1066 it had been held by "Ketil the Steersman" from the King.[2] There was a saltpan and a fishery in the manor.[2]
The overlordship of Dibden belonged in the 12th century to Reynold de St Valery, who died in 1166, and his son Bernard de St. Valery, who was killed at the siege of Acon in 1192, was probably the Bernard who was lord of Dibden in 1167.[3] Descending with his granddaughters to Robert Count of Dreux, it fell, with the rest of the honour of St. Valery, into the hands of the Crown, when it was given to Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall whose son Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall died in 1300 seised of a fee there which belonged to the honour of St. Valery.[3] Dibden was thereafter held of the Crown. It was thus held in the reign of Henry VII of Arthur, Prince of Wales.[3]
The demesne of Dibden was at an early time split up into three parts:[3]
Church
The church of All Saints, which was built about 1291, and was destroyed in an air raid on 20 June 1940. The church was restored and reopened on 2 April 1955 using much of the original material.
Buried in the churchyard are members of the Lisle family, Royalists who fought against the Duke of Monmouth in the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Dibden consisted of a large number of farms scattered around the little cluster of buildings which still constitutes the village of Dibden.[3] Like nearby Beaulieu, Dibden was at one time a liberty.[3] The civil parish of Dibden was created in 1894.
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References
- ↑ Dibden, Old Hampshire Gazetteer
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Dibden in the Domesday Book
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 A History of the County of Hampshire - Volume 4 pp 655-658: The Liberty of Dibden (Victoria County History)