Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for SHOLING

SHOLING, a tything and a chapelry in Hound Parish, Hants. The tything lies on the Southampton and Netley railway, 3¼ miles ESE of Southampton; and has a r. station. Real property, with Woolston, £5,190. The chapelry was constituted in 1866; and has a post-office, of the name of Sholing-Common, under Southampton. Pop., not separately returned. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Winchester. Value, not reported. Pa tron, the Bishop of W. The church was built in 1866.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a tything and a chapelry"   (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions")
Administrative units: Hound CP/AP       Hampshire AncC
Place names: SHOLING     |     SHOLING COMMON
Place: Sholing

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