226 HISTORY OF HARTING. 



The measurements of the well at Carisbrooke are 

 said to be as follows : Gross depth, 240 ft. ; to the 

 water, 150 ft. ; depth of water, 90 ft. 



In some places in this neighbourhood, owing to 

 faults in the strata, it is impossible to sink a well suc- 

 cessfully. Thus at the Rev. G. Tasswell's, Stonerhouse, 

 near Petersfield, a shaft was driven to a depth of 

 200 ft. in the year 1870, through Upper Greensand, 

 but no water was reached. Here the gault clay was 

 inaccessible. 



On the west, the boundary between the Counties of 

 Sussex and Hampshire is now said to pass through 

 an oven at old Ditcham House. The survey of Sir 

 Edward Caryll's land in 1632, is not so particular on 

 this point. " From the Lyth (i.e. the hill or ' Leith,' 

 as at Selborne) y e said Bounder passeth Northward in 

 y e Procession way or Tumemere (perhaps Tunemere 

 or town-boundary, round which the procession walked 

 on Rogation days), between y e Parishes of Hartinge 

 and Berryton aforesaid, directly without and neare 

 y e west side of Mr. Cooper's (Cowper's) close called 

 Dalefield and Ditcham House orchard, bounding this 

 Manor Parish or Tything. From Ditcham Orchyard 

 hedge Corner aforesayd or y e west end of y e crosse 

 lane called Dole lane, leading to Richard Cobb's 

 house, late Widow Lipscombe's, being y e Lords of 

 this Manor." This last apparently is Hurst Farm.* 



The Cowpers or Coopers of Ditcham settled there 

 in the 1 5th century, and always appear to have held 

 other lands in West Harting. John Cowper of 

 Ditcham was one of the Feoffees of Harting in 1604, 

 and from the interment of his family in the South 

 Transept of Harting Church, that part of the edifice 

 has been called " The Ditcham Aisle." A monument 



West Harting Leager. Bounds of West Harting Manor, 

 page 70. "Total circumference of West Harting Manor 14 miles, 

 7 furlongs, and 30 perches." 



