Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for REDBRIDGE

REDBRIDGE, a village and a hundred in Hants. The village stands on the river Test or Anton, at its influx to Southampton-water, and on the Andover and Southampton railway, at the spot where terminated the quondam Andover canal, 4 miles W N W of Southampton. It was known at Domesday as Rodbrige, and in the time of Bede as Reodford; it had a small religions establishment in the 7th century, where King Ceadwalla put thebrother of Arvandus to death, and which quite disappeared before the Norman conquest; it is said by Camden to have changed its name to Redbridge, on account of the erection of a bridge at it, where previouslywas a ford; it has, for centuries, been a place of considerable resort for coasting vessels; it was the scene, in last century, of General Bentham's experiments in thebuilding of swift scooners and brigs; it now carries onconsiderable trade in the export of grain, and in the import of coal and timber; it is practically conjoint with the villages of Eling and Totton; and it has a post-office under Southampton, a railway station, and an endowed school. The hundred contains Lyndhurst and Nursling parishes, and parts of Eling, Bramshaw, and Minstead:and is in Romsey division. Acres, 44,086. Pop. in 1851, 9, 945. Houses, 1, 931.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a hundred"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Hampshire AncC
Place names: REDBRIDGE     |     REODFORD     |     RODBRIGE
Place: Redbridge

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