Fawley, Eling, Staneswood, and Redbridge. 51 



Park, we reach Fawley, the Falalie and Falegia of Domesday, 

 where Walkelin, Bishop of Winchester, held in demesne, as 

 Ahbey land, one hyde and three yardlands. The whole of 

 the manor was thrown into the Forest, but in its place now 

 are ploughed fields and grass pastures. The church, with its 

 central tower, stands at the entrance of the village, and its 

 handsome Komanesque doorway shows plainly that the Con- 

 queror did not destroy every place of worship. The building 

 was partially restored in 1844, but the pillars on the north 

 side of the chancel were copied from the original Norman 

 work, which, with the three piscinas and the hagioscope, give 

 it a further interest to the ecclesiologist. 



church, its roof completely thatched with ivy, disfigured, however, by a 

 wretched spire. In Domesday it possessed a saltern and a fishery, and a 

 wood with pannage for six hogs (sylva de 6 porcis). Two hydes were 

 taken into the Forest. Eling, at the same time, maintained two mills, 

 which paid twenty-five shillings, a fishery and a saltern, both free from 

 tax. The manor was bound, in the time of Edward the Confessor, to find 

 half-a-day's entertainment (Jirma) for the King. For a curious extract 

 from its parish register, see chapter xix. Staneswood (Staneude), which 

 is more southward, also, according to Domesday, possessed a mill which 

 paid five shillings, and two fisheries worth fifty pence. Farther north lies 

 Redbridge, the Rodbrige of Domesday, which also maintained two mills, 

 rented, however, at fifty shillings. This was the Hreutford and Vadum 

 Arundinis of Bede, where lived Cynibert the Abbot, who, failing in his 

 attempt to save the two sons of Arvald from Ceadwalla, delayed their 

 death till he had converted them to Christianity. (Bede, Hist. EccL, 

 torn, i., lib. iv., cap. xvi., p. 284, published by the English Historical 

 Society.) All these places, with the exception of Redbridge, were more or 

 less afforested. The district, however, seems to have been by far the most 

 flourishing of any adjoining the New Forest, owing, no doubt, to the 

 immigration which the various creeks invited, and the remains of salterns 

 still show its former prosperity. Next to it came the Valley of the Avon, 

 its mills often rented, in Domesday, by a payment of the eels caught in 

 the river. 



