ALTON HUNDRED 



BINSTED 



poor, and there were payments to the poor in 

 connection with obits celebrated in the church. 142 



Town lands. 143 A piece of garden ground in 

 Normandy Street, and a piece of land in Nether 

 Street Fields, which formerly included 4 perches 

 taken by the Mid-Hants Railway Company under 

 a deed dated 24 March, 1873, at an annual rent 

 charge of 12 l6s. 6J., payable to the church- 

 wardens and overseers of Alton. The same officials 

 also receive the interest of .624 4*. -jd. Consols, 

 being the proceeds of the sale of the following 

 town lands. The site of four tenements on the 

 west side of Cut Pound Street with a piece of 

 land in Lenton Lane communicating with it. 

 The site of two tenements on the east of the 

 upper part of Normandy Street. Half an acre of 

 land behind a barn called Spital Barn. 



The following property was diverted from its 

 previous charitable uses during the last century. 

 Five tenements in Normandy Street adjoining 

 Chauntsinger's Field which were sold about 1860 

 and the proceeds probably paid to the guardians 

 of the poor. A shop in the market-place near 

 the eastern corner of Cut Pound Street, misappro- 

 priated before i824. 144 An acre of land at Med- 

 stead in Middle Field near Bar Stile. A small 

 piece of land at Redhill in Medstead, for which 

 until 1812 an annual rent of is. 6J. was paid. 



Magdalen College, Oxford, pays an annual sum 

 varying in amount, in lieu of 9 bushels of wheat, 

 out of the great tithes of East Worldham, to the 

 vicar and churchwardens of Alton, who distribute 

 it to the poor. 



John Stent by his will dated in 1592 gave a 

 yearly rent charge of 10, less ijs. \d. land tax, 

 on lands at Wivelrod in the parish of Bentworth, 

 payable to the minister, churchwardens and con- 

 stables, to be distributed to the poor. By deed 

 dated 2 April, 1765, this annual rent is charged 

 on a messuage and land at Wivelrod, Bent- 

 worth. 



John Knight of Chawton by his will dated 

 15 August, 1617, gave a yearly rent charge of 2, 

 less \s. land tax, on Amery farm, now the pro- 



perty of John Gathorne Wood, payable to the 

 minister and churchwardens for the poor. 



Sarah Greaves by her will dated I May, 1640, 

 gave a yearly rent charge of 2, less 43. land tax, 

 on lands in Alton, now the property of Messrs. 

 Spicer of King's Mill, Alton, and payable to the 

 poor through the churchwardens. 



Thomas Geale by deed dated 27 March, 1649, 

 gave a yearly rent charge for 1 ,000 years of 2, 

 less 4*. land tax, on Caker Mead nearCaker Bridge 

 in Alton, now the property of Montagu G. Knight, 

 of Chawton, and payable to the vicar and con- 

 stables of Alton for the poor. 



Thomas Geale also left by his will dated 2 May, 

 1653, four tenements for the use of eight poor 

 people born in Alton. He also bequeathed to 

 the aged inhabitants of his almshouses 4 per 

 annum payable out of lands called Ravenshurst in 

 Chobham, Surrey. The payment ceased before 

 1824. 



Bartholomew Goodyer by his will dated 27 

 November, 1789, left 50, the interest on which 

 was to be given away by the minister, church- 

 wardens and overseers in loaves on the first Sunday 

 of every month to old people. 



John Fisher of Bristol by his will dated 3 June, 

 1741, directed his executors to buy land in Alton 

 to yield 8 per annum for three sermons to be 

 preached in Alton church on the anniversary of 

 his death, on Good Friday and on St. Thomas's 

 Day, and for a distribution of bread and money to 

 the poor. Edward Fisher, nephew of the bene- 

 factor, maintained the charity during his life, and 

 reserved a fee farm rent on a small property at 

 Holybourne near Alton. After his death in 1812 

 John Fisher his nephew paid ^ for loaves to be 

 given to twenty p"oor widows as long as they lived 

 in Alton. The payment of the sermon money 

 was discontinued about 1820 by John Fisher, and 

 after his death William Fisher his brother refused to 

 make payments to any fresh widows. A fee farm 

 rent of 3 is still paid in respect of Holybourne 

 Brewery to the trustees of the will of the late 

 William Fisher. 



BINSTED 



Benestede (xi. cent.) ; Benstede (xiv. cent.) ; 

 Bensted (xvii. cent.). 



The parish of Binsted is bounded by the 

 northern branch of the river Wey on the north 

 and the Surrey border on the east. 



Binsted village stands at the intersection of 

 a road leading from Buck's-Horn Oak, in Alice 

 Holt Forest, westward to Holybourne, and a road 

 from Bentley southward to Kingsley. The road 

 from Farnham to Portsmouth passes through the 

 length of Alice Holt, which is an ancient forest 

 of fine oak and beech, stretching across the eastern 

 end of the parish from north to south, where it 

 nearly adjoins Wolmer Forest. 



Wyck, one of the hamlets of the parish, is 

 situated on a road from Binsted village to East 

 Worldham, and near it is Binsted Wyck, the 

 residence of Mrs. Wickham. Isington, another 

 hamlet, lies near the river Wey on the northern 

 boundary of the parish, and Wheatley is a hamlet 

 a mile to the south-east of Binsted village. 



Amongst other place-names in Binsted we have, 

 in 1339, a meadow called 'le Kolemede,' a wood 

 called 'le Broke,' and land called 'Ancrades 

 lond' ; l in 1358 a croft called 'le Broudehoukes ' 

 and a meadow called Me Houkemede,' lying 

 below Me Wykes'; 2 in 1586 a wood called 

 Grymes Grove, a close called Cleypitts, a place 



I* 2 Chantry Cert. 51, No. 14, & 52, 

 No. 12. 



1< 3 Report on Alton Charities by 



Mr. William Trimmer, solicitor to the 

 Alton Charity trustees. 



114 Curtis's Hist, of Alton, p. III. 



483 



1 Add. Chart. 20,214. 

 a Ibid. 17,414. 



