Place Name Daniel Lysons (April 28, 1762 – 1834) who was known by the nickname Stumpity Stump was curate of…
Place Name Takes its name from small village in the Test Valley, Hampshire. According to the Basingstoke and Deane Conservation…
Place Name Laid out in two stages in 1903 and 1906, this street recalls the Larpent family who were prominent…
Place Name Thought to be named after its Jewish inhabitants. It was one of several Jew’s Rows that appeared around…
Place Name Kingsclere, between Newbury and Basingstoke, was first mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle of AD872 as Cynig’s Clere, meaning…
Place Name Ibsley is a small hamlet in the New Forest, with the surrounding fertile lands supporting local agriculture for…
Place Name Named after Joshua Vanneck, Lord Huntingfield (December 31, 1745 – August 15, 1816), who bought Roehampton Great House,…
Place Name In 1835 Jane Seymour Colman married Admiral Sir William Hotham, a Royal Navy officer who had seen service…
Place Name Horndean, near the South Downs, lies, like the Alton Estate itself, on the old London to Portsmouth road.…
Place Name Holybourne is a village on the outskirts of Alton. Its name is thought to derive from Haligburna, meaning…