A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



contains no ancient fittings but the font, of Purbeck 

 marble with a square bowl on a round shaft, formerly 

 surrounded by four angle shafts, the bases of which 

 alone remain. It dates from c. 1 190-1200. 



In the south wall of the chancel is a fifteenth-cen- 

 tury alabaster panel of English work, with the betrayal 

 of Christ by Judas. It came from the old church, 

 and was once doubtless part of the reredos of an altar ; 

 the background is gilt, with white spots. 



The earliest parish register at Hawkley dates from 

 1797 to 1812. A mixed Hawkley register, dating 

 from 1640 to 1797, is kept at Newton Valence, and 

 before that date the entries were made in the Newton 

 Valence registers. 



The plate consists of two silver chalices (one 1861, 

 the other undated), one silver ciborium dated 1903, 

 one pewter paten cover, three patens (one silver, 1861, 

 one pewter, and one electro-plated), and two glass 

 flagons. 



The chapel of Hawkley was an- 

 nexed to and subservient to the church 

 of Newton Valence at least as early as 

 1291, when the entry ' Ecclesia de Niwenton cum 

 capella ' undoubtedly meant the church of Newton 

 with the chapel of Hawkley. 16 In a composition made 

 about 1364 between the rector and vicar of Newton 

 Valence, the vicar was to have all obventions from the 

 church of Newton and the chapel of Hawkley 'ab 

 eadem ecclesia dependent!.' 17 Hence the advowson 

 of Hawkley passed with that of Newton Valence to 

 the monastery of Edington, thence to the lords of 

 Newton Valence, until they sold it in the early nine- 

 teenth century. 



Mr. James Maberly of Hawkley Hurst endowed 

 Hawkley with a separate living, and it was finally 

 severed from Newton Valence in 1860. The advow- 

 son then passed to the Maberly family and is held by 

 them at the present day. 



NEWTON VALENCE 



Newenton, Niwenton, Nyweton (xii and xiii cent.) 

 The parish of Newton Valence, covering about 

 2,258 acres, lies to the south-east of Selborne. From 

 Selborne the village can be reached by a hilly road 

 leading from Gracious Street round Selborne Hill. 

 Where the road branches at The Nap to left and right 

 the uphill road to the left leads into the village, while 

 the road to the right leads down to the main Alton 

 road and to the Pelham estate, which with the 147 

 acres of the parish included in the Rotherfield estate 

 covers the whole of that end of the parish. As the 

 road branches upwards to the village the modern 

 school ' stands well back from the road on the left. 

 Fronting on the street are several picturesque cottages, 

 from the backs of which, over a foreground of field 

 and meadow, can be seen Colemore and Priors Dean, 

 while away in the distance on the left stretch the 

 Sussex Downs. Further along the street broadens 

 out, and in the left-hand corner is a pond almost 

 hidden by overhanging trees. Beyond this is a gate 

 opening up the path which leads both to the church 

 of St. Mary and the manor house, for the manor 

 house stands on the right almost behind the church. 

 Beyond this gate on a green bank the village stocks 

 were originally fixed between two ash trees in front 

 of the back wall of the manor house farm stables, and 

 remained there and in use within the memory of one 

 of the oldest inhabitants of the village. Only one 

 ash tree remains of the four that originally grew on 

 this bank, and this is not one of those on which the 

 stocks were fixed. Filling up the right-hand corner 

 is the big pond, which is one of the most beautiful 

 features of the village, with its wide circle of clear 

 water, nearly dried up in summer, and its background 

 of sturdy rushes. The vicarage stands on high ground 

 where Selborne Common meets the border line of 

 Newton Valence. Between the common and the 

 house stands a splendid avenue of Scotch firs planted 

 down among vegetation of very different character. 



In the old-world garden is another avenue of excep- 

 tionally tall yew trees. There are also traces of two 

 fishponds, now filled up, and a sundial, the pedestal 

 of which is supposed to be formed of a pillar of old 

 London Bridge. On a window on the east side of 

 the house is the date 1755, but the back of the house 

 is much older, as is shown by the beams in some of 

 the rooms and traces of an old archway in one. There 

 is a fine oak staircase probably dating from the seven- 

 teenth century. Pelham, the residence of Miss Lem- 

 priere, at the other end of the parish, is a picturesque 

 house of the Tudor style, built in 1782, when 

 Admiral Thomas Dumaresq, who commanded the 

 Repulse under Rodney in the ' Battle of the Saints,' 

 bought the land called Pelham, or Pilgrim's Place, 

 with his prize money and built the house. It is 

 surrounded by an outer circle of well-wooded country 

 Mary Land Copse, Newton Common on the west, 

 Kitcombe Wood on the north, Ina Wood Copse on 

 the east, and Plash Wood in East Tisted parish on 

 the south. In the grounds stands a beautiful tulip 

 tree, one of the largest in England. Kitcombe House, 

 which is part of the Pelham estate, lies to the north, 

 while Headmoor,' including Potter's Land, Brewers 

 and Hill Land, lies north-west beyond Newton Com- 

 mon. Close by Newton Wood Farm, south of the 

 common, is a field in which was a messuage with two 

 barns and two granaries and a wind grist or corn 

 mill, called 'Cowdries Colpyn' in 1798,* now known 

 as Golpyn. Windmill Field is west of Golpyn, and it 

 was there probably in a big hollow still left in the 

 ground 4 that the windmill stood. Close by is a 

 copse called ' The Devil's Pleasure,' and a field called 

 ' Dripping Pan Field.' 



Noar Hill Farm, Hammond's Farm, and Lower 

 House Farm are in Noar Manor. Noar Hill rises to 

 a height of nearly 700 ft., and is almost surrounded by 

 two thickly-wooded Hangers Noar Hill Hanger and 

 High Wood Hanger. Some of the most beautiful 



16 Pope Nick. Tax. (Rec. Com.), zio. 



V Lansd. MS. 442, fol. 239. 

 1 Built in 1876. Before this the school 

 was a small building consisting of two 

 rooms in the vicarage garden. 



a Here in 1898 a broken pot containing 

 the remains of human bones was turned 

 up by the ploughs. Some very perfect 

 flint axe-heads were also found near this 

 spot. 



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8 Documents in the possession of Miss 

 Lempriere of Pelham. 



4 Information from Mr. A. E. Scott of 

 Rotherfield Park. 



