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A vision of Britain through time
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WARBLINGTON, a parish in Havant district, Hants; on the sound between Langstone and Chichester harbours, 1 mile ESE of Havant r. station. It contains a village of its own name, and the village, head post-office, and r. station of Emsworth. Acres, 3,848; of which 650 are water. Real property, £10,165; of which £100 are in gasworks. Pop. in 1851, 2,302; in 1861, 2,196. Houses, 475. The property is subdivided. The manor belonged anciently to the Warblingtons; and passed to R. de Monthermer, the Montacutes, the Cottons, and others. W. Castle probably dates from the time of the Warbletons, in or before the reign of Henry III.; was rebuilt in the time of Henry VII.; was, for some time, the residence of the Countess of Salisbury, mother of Reginald Pole; was the birthplace of Bishop Cotton, of the time of Elizabeth; and is now a ruin. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £600.* Patron, the Rev. W. Norris. The church is Saxon and early English, and all good. The rectories of Emsworth and Redhill are separate benefices.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a parish" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Warblington CP/AP Havant RegD/PLU Hampshire AncC |
| Place: | Warblington |
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