Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for NURSLING, or Nutshalling

NURSLING, or Nutshalling, a village and a parish in Romsey district, Hants. The village stands on the river Anton, adjacent to the Andover and Southampton railway, 2 miles N by W of Redbridge r. station, and 3 S by E of Romsey; is the Knutscilling of the Life of St. Boniface; and has a post-office, of the name of Nursling, under Southampton. The parish contains also part of Rownham chapelry, and comprises 2, 124 acres. Real property, £5, 424. Pop. in 1851, 1,024; in 1861, 947. Houses, 209. The property is divided among a few. The manor belonged before the Norman Conquest to the Bishop of winchester. Grove Place was a hunting-seat of Queen Elizabeth. A small Benedictine monasterywas founded in the parish at the close of the 7th century, disappeared before the Norman conquest, and probably was destroyed by the Northmen. There is an ancient entrenchment. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £550.* Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is chiefly transition Norman, includes later additions, has a tower with wooden spire, and contains a monument to the Mill family. There are a Wesleyan chapel and a national school.


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

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a village and a parish"   (ADL Feature Type: "populated places")
Administrative units: Nursling CP/AP       Romsey RegD/PLU       Hampshire AncC
Place names: NURSLING     |     NURSLING OR NUTSHALLING     |     NUTSHALLING
Place: Nursling

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