TOPOGRAPHY 



THE HUNDRED OF SELBORNE 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



SELBORNE FARINGDON NEWTON VALENCE 



EMPSHOTT HAWKLEY EAST TISTED 



This list represents the extent of the hundred of Selborne at the time 

 of the Population Abstract of 1831, and is identical with the hundred of the 

 present day. 



The hundreds of Alton and Selborne were both included in the hundred 

 of Neatham at the time of the Domesday Survey, 1 and although no definite 

 date can be given for the division it must have come before 1217, since Alton 

 hundred was in existence at that date,* but whether the part that became 

 Selborne hundred was immediately called Selborne or retained for a time the 

 name of Neatham is unknown. The earliest mention of the hundred is in a 

 hundred roll of 1275. In this it was stated that the hundred belonged to 

 the king, who received from it one mark annually. The inquisition then 

 taken showed that suit had been withdrawn from the hundred court by the 

 prior of Selborne for the manor of Selborne, by William de Valence for 

 the manors of Newton Valence and Empshott, by the bishop of Exeter for the 

 manor of Faringdon, and by the master of the Templars for the manor of 

 Sotherington. 3 



The divisions of the hundred seem to have changed very little from the 

 fourteenth century onwards.* According to a map of 1788, on the west, the 

 north-west part of the parish of Newton Valence and the west part of East 

 Tisted, including Rotherfield Park, and on the east Oakhanger, Oakwood, 

 Blackmoor, and Woolmer, are included in Alton hundred. 6 In another map 

 of about the same date Faringdon was excluded from Selborne and included 

 in Alton hundred. 6 This is however due to inaccuracy rather than to a change 

 in the divisions. 



1 V. C.H. Hants, i, Dom. Surv. ' Cal. Pat. 1216-25, p. 41 ; V.C.H. Hants, ii, 471. 



* Rot. Hund. (Rec. Com.), ii, 224. ' Feud. Aids, ii, 315. 



5 Map in possession of Miss Lempriere of Pelham. 



6 Map in possession of Mr. A. M. Downie of Alton. 



