THE HUNDRED OF EAST MEON 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



EAST MEON 



FROXFIELD AND 



STEEP WITH NORTH AMBERSHAM 



TITHING AND SOUTH AMBERSHAM TITHING' 



In Domesday Book the hundred is represented by a single entry under 

 ' Meon,' which no doubt, however, included the present parishes of Froxfield 

 and Steep. The land within the hundred was assessed at 72 hides at 

 the time of Edward the Confessor, and at 35 hides at the time of the 

 Survey. 3 Westbury and perhaps Peak also were included in Meonstoke hun- 

 dred in the Survey, 8 and the tithing of Westbury and Peak still formed 

 part of it in 1841, Westbury being then situated partly in East Meon 

 parish and partly in West Meon parish, and Peak wholly in the parish 

 of Warnford. 4 It has, however, since been transferred to East Meon hundred. 

 In 1 3 1 6 the hundred appears to have comprised also the hundred of Ham- 

 bledon, for the vills of Ham- 

 bledon, Chidden, Glidden, 

 and Denmead are included 

 under it, 6 the three last- 

 named being tithings of 

 Hambledon at the present 

 day. Hambledon, however, 

 must soon afterwards have 

 been detached, for it was a 



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HUNDRED 

 EAST MEON 



ffctaria History ot 'Bampshlrt Pol. 3. 



separate hundred in the reign 

 of Edward III. 8 From that 

 time onwards the hundred 

 included the same parishes 

 as are set out in the popula- 

 tion returns of 1831. The 

 parishes of Colemore, Pri- 

 vett, and Priors Dean were 

 added to the hundred before 



i84i, 7 and the new parish of Langrish has been formed from the tithings 

 of Langrish, Ramsdean, and Bordean. A further change was effected when 

 the Ambershams, situated in Sussex, were detached from the parish of Steep 

 under the Acts 2 & 3 Will. IV, cap. 64, and 7 & 8 Vic. cap. 61, and 

 became part of Sussex. 



From the earliest date the hundred followed the descent of the manor 

 of East Meon (q.v.), that is, it was in the hands of the bishop until it 

 passed with the manor to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners on the resigna- 

 tion of the see by Bishop Sumner in 1869. 



1 The extent of the hundred as given in the Population Return of 1831. 



1 V.C.H. Hants, \, 452. 3 Ibid, i, 481/7. Population Return of 1841. 



6 feud. Aids, ii, 319. ' Sunt in dicto hundredo ville subscripte Estmune, Froxfeld, Rammesdon, Lan- 

 geryshe, Stupe, Thorcope, Hameledon, Chidden, Gludden et Denemede.' This may of course have been a 

 slip of the scribe. 



6 Lay Subs. R. Edw. Ill, Hants, bdle. 173, No. 33. 7 Cf. Population Returns of 1831 and 1841. 



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