A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



vested in the successive lords of the manor until 

 Mr. William Padwick gave it to his daughter, the 

 present Mrs. R. F. Clarke. 



The church of NORTH H4TLING is a chapelry 

 attached to South Hayling, but no chapel was assessed 

 with the church in the Taxatio of 1291. In 1304, 

 however, and during the next ten years, there were 

 several petitions from the inhabitants to the bishop 

 praying that the vicar should celebrate in the chapel 

 of St. Peter, Northwood. The dispute between 

 the vicar and his parishioners was settled in 1317, 

 when the vicar agreed to hold full and complete 

 service there every Sunday and on certain festivals, 

 and to provide the necessary books. Under Bishop 

 Edendon (1346-66) the chancel was repaired, Bishop 

 Waynflete (144787) issued a commission for the 

 dedication of Northwood chapel," and shortly after- 

 wards another agreement was made between the 

 vicar of Southwood and his parishioners at North- 

 wood chapel as to the services to be held there." 

 The living is still a perpetual curacy attached to 

 South Hayling. 



A Congregational chapel was built in 1888 at 

 Mengham and a Free Church mission house at Elm 

 Grove in 1894. The South Hayling elementary 

 school was opened in 1875-6. 



There are no endowed charities 

 CHARITIES within the parish of North Hayling, 

 but in South Hayling a small piece 

 of land in the Church Road, called ' The Surplice 

 Piece ' has been in the possession of the vicar and 

 churchwardens for many years, and according to 

 tradition was given to provide a fund for washing 

 the vicar's surplice. A church room was erected on 

 part of the land in 1904. By an order of the 

 Charity Commissioners, dated 5 September, 1905, 

 the real estate was vested in ' the Official Trustee of 

 Charity Lands ' and a scheme established directing 

 that the church room should be used for the benefit 

 of members of the Church of England in the parish 

 of St. Mary, and that the income of the charity, 

 subject to the up-keep of the church room, should be 

 applied towards defraying the expenses in connexion 

 with the parish church. 



WARBLINGTON 



Warbliteton (xi cent.) ; Warblinton (xiii cent.). 



The civil parish of Warblington, governed by War- 

 blington Urban District Council, extends over 3,254 

 acres and includes the ecclesiastical parishes of War- 

 blington and Emsworth and a part of Rowland's 

 Castle. The village, which lies on the main road 

 from Southampton to Chichester, consists of a few 

 houses clustered about the cross-roads, where one way 

 curving round by the village pond leads northwards 

 towards Eastleigh, and another, known as Pook 

 Lane, 1 winds its way through the meadows to Lang- 

 stone Harbour. Most of the southern part of the 

 parish is well-watered pasture-land. Of the whole 

 parish 663 acres are arable land, about 808 acres 

 pasture-land, and 425 acres are covered with wood.* 

 The streams served to work water-mills, one of which 

 is mentioned as appurtenant to the manor in io86, 3 

 while another stood in the tithing of ' Neutibrige.' 

 At the east end of the village a lane leads southwards 

 past the avenue leading to the rectory house, to the 

 ' Castle,' a comparatively modern house with farm 

 buildings, conspicuous only for the ruins of a tall 

 sixteenth-century gateway. At the end of the lane 

 stands the church with several fine yew trees in the 

 churchyard, one to the south-east being a notable 

 specimen, and across the graveyard there are glimpses 

 of the channel between Hayling Island and the main- 

 land. The soil here is chalky, but further north the 

 subsoil is clay, the surface being a rich loam used 

 mostly for pasture land, though some wheat is grown. 

 The whole of the northern part of the parish is 

 thickly wooded. Leigh Park, the residence of 

 Sir Frederick FitzWygram, bart., is surrounded by 



oaks, larch and firs, and the woods stretch eastwards 

 to Emsworth Common. It was probably from them 

 that Herbert son of Matthew, then lord of Ems- 

 worth, sent forty oaks to provide pales for the bishop 

 of Chichester's park in 1231.* Warblington Park 

 was frequently mentioned with the manor towards the 

 end of the fifteenth century, and was granted to 

 Sir Richard Cotton with it in 1551.* It may have 

 originated in the grant of free warren to Herbert son 

 of Matthew in 1 23 1, 6 and if, as was presumably the 

 case, it surrounded the castle, it may possibly have 

 been destroyed during the civil wars. The tithe- 

 map of the parish is in the custody of the rector. 



WARBLINGTON M4NOR was 

 MANORS originally parcel of Westbourne in 

 Sussex, which formed part of the pos- 

 sessions of Earl Godwin, 7 at whose death Warblington 

 was probably inherited with its tithing of Newtimber 

 by Earl Harold. 8 After the Conquest the manor was 

 granted to Roger earl of Shrewsbury, who died in 

 1094. His English lands were inherited by his 

 second son, Hugh, who was succeeded in 1098 by his 

 elder brother, Robert of Bellme, on payment of a 

 heavy fine. The latter forfeited them by his rebel- 

 lion against Henry I, and Warblington was evidently 

 granted to a member of the de Courci family, for 

 William de Courci, dapifer to Henry II, was in pos- 

 session of it in Il86. 9 His son Robert, preferring to 

 retain his Norman lands, forfeited his claim to War- 

 blington, 10 which thus became an escheat to King 

 John, of whom it was held by his ardent supporter 

 Matthew son of Herbert, sheriff of Sussex under John 

 and Henry III, in exchange for lands which he had lost 



7" Winton. Epis. Reg. Sendale, fol. 21. 

 7< Egerton MS. 2033, fol. 44. 

 Ibid. fol. 89. 



1 The name seem connected with a 

 certain Roger ' Pouke ' associated with 

 Robert Le Ewer in a writ concerning 

 Emsworth in 1312; Col. Pat. 1307-13, 

 p. 430. 



9 Board of Agriculture Returns (1905). 



V.C.H. Hants, i, 526. 



Cal. Close, ^27-31, p. 431. 



Cal. Pat. 1476-85, pp. 117,495. 



6 Cal. Chart. R. i, 133. The grant 

 was confirmed eight years later j ibid, 

 p. 242. 



"' y.C.H. Hants, i, 526*. 



Ibid. 478. 



' Pipe R. 32 Hen. II. Itt seems prob- 



134 



able that Hen. I granted Warblington 

 to his dapifer Robert de Courci father of 

 William de Courci, who died in 1177, 

 leaving a son, the William de Courci of 

 the text, sec Magni Rot. Scacc. Norman. 

 (Soc. of Antiq.), icv. 



10 Hiit. of Noble Brit. Families, by Hen. 

 Drummond ; Testa de Nevill (Rec. Com.), 

 237- 



