Warblington

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Warblington
Hampshire

An older house in Warblington
Location
Grid reference: SU725065
Location: 50°51’0"N, -0°58’8"W
Data
Post town: Havant
Postcode: PO9
Dialling code: 023
Local Government
Council: Havant
Parliamentary
constituency: 		Havant

Warblington is a suburb of Havant, a town in the south-eastern corner of Hampshire, and in the Bosmere Hundred.[1]

The current Warblington Castle Farm occupies the approximate site of the original farm.[2]

Parish church

The parish church, St Thomas à Becket, is part of a joint parish with the church of St James, Emsworth.[3] The oldest part of the church is the small central tower, which is Saxon and was built in the 11th century. In 1967 Pevsner and Lloyd described St Thomas à Becket church as essentially late 12th century and notes the "undisturbed" setting.

History

In prehistoric and early historical times the River Ems was tidal as far as Westbourne and the Westbrook creek reached to Victoria Road, leaving Emsworth almost isolated at high tide. A coastal route developed that led from Hayling Island through Havant and Rowlands Castle to the South Downs. A part of the coastal route followed the Portsdown ridgeway and from Chichester to Belmont Hill in Bedhampton probably skirted the heads of the various creeks which entered the harbour, passing through country still covered with the original thick forest of oak and beech.[4]

In Roman times a villa existed to the south of the road to Noviomagus Reginorum in the fields of what is now Warblington Castle Farm. Archaeological finds show that the building was a sizeable brick and stone edifice, with floors paved with red brick and coloured sandstone and a view of the harbour and wooded shores of Hayling Island. The fertile landscape suggests the area to have been under continuous cultivation for 1500-1800 years.[4]

Charters were granted by Kings Æthelstan in 935[5] and Æthelred II in 980[6] establishing and confirming boundaries of Warblington. From AD 980-1066 the manor was held by Godwin, Earl of Wessex and his son Harold Godwinson.[7]

Part of the Warblitetone (Warblington) entry in the Domesday Book.

After the Norman Conquest, the Manor of Warblington was given to Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Shrewsbury as part of the manor of Westbourne. The Domesday Book lists the latter with two churches (one of the churches was actually at Westbourne), a mill, 29 families and two slaves (about 120 people). There were also seven plough teams, indicating about 850 acres of land under cultivation.[8]

In the 1400s, the people were removed and the area became a private deer park for Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick who then owned the manor.[9]

The village was the site of a mediæval manor, now known as Warblington Castle built in 1515 and 1525 and mostly destroyed in 1644 in the Civil War[10] leaving only a single gate tower, part of a wall, and a gateway.[11]

The Imperial Gazetteer of 1870-1872 described Warblington as having a population of 2,196 as of 1861 and mentioned that the "church is Saxon".[12]

About the village

To the north of the church is the locality's most distinctive landmark: the tall octagonal turret of Warblington Castle. In October 1551, Mary of Guise the widow of James V of Scotland stayed a night in Warblington manor as a guest of Sir Richard Cotton.[13]

A cemetery, the ruins of Grade II listed Warblington Castle, on private property, the Grade I Listed St Thomas à Becket Church, Warblington[14] a Grade II listed Old Farmhouse,[15] and the Grade II listed Old Rectory[16] are all within the boundaries of the Warblington Conservation Area.

Warblington contains a large secondary school (Warblington School) but no primary school.[17]

Warblington railway station is on the West Coastway line.

Green Pond Corner used to be the local pond. The "corner group" also included Warblington House and Warblington Farm according to records from 1870.[18] The pond was covered over around 1920 and now hosts the One Stop corner shop and local glass and fabric recycling point.[19]

Pictures

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  • Warblington church
    Warblington church
  • Secondary School
    Secondary School
  • Tennis Club
    Tennis Club
  • Level Crossing
    Level Crossing

References

  1. ↑ Information on Warblington  from GENUKI
  2. ↑ Reger 2016, p. 17.
  3. ↑ Parish of Warblington with Emsworth 2022.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Reger 2016, pp. 19-21.
  5. ↑ S.430. A.D. 935. King Athelstan to Wihtgar, minister; lease, for four lives, of 7 hides (mansae) at Havant, Hants
  6. ↑ S 837. A.D. 980. King Æthelred to the monks of Old Minster, Winchester; grant of the reversion of 7 hides (cassati) at Havant, Hants., which had been granted by King Athelstan to Wihtgar, his thegn, for four lives (cf. S 430)
  7. ↑ Brandon 1978, p. 211.
  8. ↑ Powell-Smith 1086.
  9. ↑ Lloyd 1974, p. 23.
  10. ↑ Barron 1985, p. 50.
  11. ↑ Hampshire Gardens Trust 2001.
  12. ↑ Vision of Britain 2016.
  13. ↑ Turnbull 1861, pp. 188-299.
  14. ↑ National Heritage List 1154443: Church of St Thomas-a-Becket (Grade I listing)
  15. ↑ National Heritage List 1091613: Warblington Castle Farmhouse (Grade II listing)
  16. ↑ National Heritage List 1303444: The Old Rectory (Grade II listing)
  17. ↑ Lewis 2022.
  18. ↑ HCC 2022.
  19. ↑ One Stop 2022.

Bibliography

  • A History of the County of Hampshire - Volume 3 pp 134-139: Parishes: Warblington (Victoria County History)
  • Nikolaus Pevsner: The Buildings of England: Hampshire & The Isle of Wight, 1967 Penguin Books ISBN 978-0-300-09606-4
  • Barron, William (1985). The Castles of Hampshire & Isle of Wight. Paul Cave Publications. p. 50. ISBN 0-86146-048-0. 
  • Ekwall, Eilert, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 1960. p. 497 ISBN 0198691033
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