TOPOGRAPHY 



THE HUNDRED OF ALTON 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



ALTON CHAWTON HARTLEY MAUDITT KINGSLEY 



BINSTED FROYLE HOLYBOURNE AND EAST WORLDHAM 



BRAMSHOTT GREATHAM NEATHAM WEST WORLDHAM 



The above list represents the extent of the hundred of Alton at the 

 time of the Population Abstract of 1831. At the present day the 

 parish of Headley is also included in the hundred. 



At the time of the Domesday Survey this hundred and that of 

 Selborne were included in the hundred of Neatham, which comprised 

 the following places : Neatham * (possibly extending into Binsted, 

 Wheatley, Kingsley, Alton, Theddon Grange and Willhall farm), 

 Holybourne, Anstey in Alton, Greatham, Chiltley in Bramshott, Sel- 

 borne, Farringdon, Alton, Froyle, Headley, Chawton, Lidshott in 

 Bramshott, Norton in Selborne, Binsted, Bramshott, Hartley Mauditt, 

 Bradshott in Selborne, Newton Valence, Willhall in Alton, 'Lesborne' 

 (Selborne ?), Larode (in West Tisted ?), Empshott, East Worldham, 

 Broxhead, Oakhanger in Selborne, and Worldham. 2 At what date 

 the hundred of Neatham was divided into the hundreds of Alton and 

 Selborne is not known, but in 1217 we have a reference to the 

 hundred of Alton. 3 There appear to have been two courts for the 

 hundred of Alton, the one termed the town hundred including the 

 tithings of Anstey, Thedden, Alton Eastbrook and Alton Westbrook, 

 and the other which was held at Holybourne, including the tithings of 

 Lidshott, Bramshott, Chiltley, Greatham, Chawton, Broxhead, East 

 Worldham, West Worldham, Willhall, Holybourne and Froyle. 4 



From the beginning of the reign of Edward I., and probably 

 from an earlier date, the hundred followed the descent of the manor 

 of Alton Westbrook, 8 and is now held by Henry John Dutton, J.P., lord 

 of that manor. 



1 Near Alton. 3 V.C.H. Hants, i. 450, etc. 3 Pat. I Hen. III. m. II (print, p. 41). 



* The Court Rolls of the hundred and manor are at the British Museum (Add. Rolls, 27,665 

 27,678 and 27,765-27,932). The jurisdiction of the court and view of frankpledge of Alton ex- 

 tended over the tithings of Wheatley, Issington, Thedden, Holtham, Rutherfield, Binsted Popham, 

 ' Southheghe,' Westcote ' Frenchemannehegh,' Binsted Kings, Wyke, Kingsley, Holybourne and Alton. 

 The view of frankpledge for Holybourne, which was held at Alton, included the tithings of Willhall, 

 Chawton, Lidshott, West Worldham, East Worldham, Broxhead, Bramshott, Greatham, Chiltley, Froyle 

 and Holybourne. 



8 See under the parish of Alton, p. 473. 



471 



