A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE 



parishes of Meonstoke, Soberton, Warnford, and Corhampton, the tithing of 

 Liss Abbas in the parish of Liss, the tithing of Westbury in the parish of 

 East Meon, and the tithing of Burwell in the parish of Hambledon." From 

 this date the extent of the hundred remained practically unchanged until 

 after 1831." 



This hundred has always belonged to the crown. In a survey of 

 the hundred taken in the Commonwealth period it was stated that the 

 courts-leet and law-days of the hundred were still then held at Easter 

 and Michaelmas and that the three-weeks' courts or sheriff's tourns were also 

 regularly held. 11 



CORHAMPTON 



Quedementune (xi cent.) ; Cornhampton (xiii 

 cent.) ; Corhamtone, Comhamtone and Cornehampton 

 (xiv cent.) ; Corehampton (xvi cent.). 



The parish of Corhampton on its western side con- 

 sists of wide stretches of wooded common and down 

 land, standing about 300 ft. above the ordnance 

 datum, and falls to a little under 200 ft. towards the 

 River Meon and the village on its eastern border. 

 On 24 March, 1894, part of Corhampton parish, 

 with a population of forty-seven, was transferred to 

 the parish of Exton. 1 This portion lay to the north- 

 west, and included the whole of the wooded downs 

 of Preshaw Park, and also the little farm of Lomer, 

 which no doubt marks the site of the manors of 

 Lomer and Lomer Turville. The small village of 

 Corhampton lies in the valley of the Meon River, in 

 the extreme east of the parish, the river forming the 

 boundary. The nearest station is in the adjoining 

 parish of Droxford. The main ro.id from West 

 Meon to Droxford runs through the village from 

 the north-east, erasing the rivers just below the 

 mill and close to the church and vicarage. A little 

 further on it divides, one road going westward 

 to Bishop's Waltham, and the other eastward to 

 the village of Meonstoke, and so 10 Droxford. The 

 church stands on a little mound on the right-hand 

 bank of the stream, the churchyard lying to the 

 south, and containing a yew-tree 26 ft. in cir- 

 cumference. To the north of the church and at the 

 back of the mill is a group of half-timber cottages, 

 probably of early seventeenth-century date. The old- 

 fashioned vicarage in its shady grounds stands opposite 

 the church on the east side of the road, the stream 

 forming the eastern boundary, while the wooded 

 grounds of Corhampton House, the residence of Mrs. 

 Pleydell Bouverie-Campbell-Wyndham, occupy the 

 angle between the Droxford and Bishop's Waltham 

 roads. The area of the parish is 1,246 acres.' The 

 soil is chalk and loam, the subsoil chalk, stone, and 

 flint. The chief crops are oats and barley. 



As early as the fifteenth century there is mention 

 of ' the tenement called Seynclers,' ' no doubt repre- 

 senting the modern St. Glair's Farm, which is situated 

 in the north of the parish. It seems generally to have 

 been leased to the farmer of the chief manor of 

 Corhampton, who was entitled to have reasonable 

 housebote, hedgebote, and firebote in St. Clair's Wood. 1 

 The following place-names in Corhampton are found 

 in a fine levied in the reign of Henry III * : ' Lide, 

 Frilande, Norlehe, and Freecroft.' In the fourteenth 

 and fifteenth centuries the following place-names 

 occur : ' La Hethen Street and Butmesfeld,' Stanbury, 

 La Gores, Abbotesheuedacre, Baroneshurne, Hasel- 

 holte, and Hackedwode ' ' ; a wood called ' Stene ' * ; 

 ' Puller's Pasture ' ; Deneyslonde and Wakelens.' " 



In the reign of Edward the Confessor 

 MANORS CORHAMPTON was assessed at three 

 hides, and was held by Alwin, but by the 

 time of the Domesday Survey it was assessed at only one 

 hide, and formed part of the possessions of Hugh de 

 Port." If the statements made on the occasion of levy- 

 ing of subsidies in 1346 and 1428 are to be relied on, 

 the manor was at one period 

 in the hands of a Geoffrey the 

 Marshal." It is possible that 

 this Geoffrey was Geoffrey the 

 Marshal of the twelfth century, 

 although there is no definite 

 evidence of this ; and, if so, he 

 must have succeeded Alwin 

 in the tenancy of the manor, 

 the overlordship continuing 

 with the St. Johns, the descen- 

 dants of Hugh de Port, as late 

 at least as the fifteenth cen- 



ST. JOHN. Argmt a 

 ctitfguei mtt not molttt 

 or. 



tury." In 1228 twocarucates 



of land in Corhampton, probably representing the 

 manor, were settled on Adam de Corhampton by 

 Gilbert de Hattingley." Adam had died before 

 1233, for in that year Basile, the widow of Adam de 



11 Foui. Aidi, ii, 307. 



14 Ibid. 336 and 358. Exch. Liy Subs. 

 R. Hants, bdle. 173, No. 218 ; bdle. 174, 

 No. 404 ; bdle. 175, No. 499 ; and bdle. 

 176, Nos. 559 and 565. 



ParL Surr. Hants, No. 8. 



1 Loc. GOT. Bd. Ord. No. 16412. 



8 Containing 722 acres of arable land, 

 141 acres of permanent grass, and 24 acres 



of woods and plantations. (Information 

 from Bd. of Agric. 190;.) 



Add. Chart. 28003. 

 4 Ibid. 27679. 



4 Feet of F. Hants, Mich. 17 Hen. III. 



* MS. penis the lady of the manor. 



' Add. MS. 33285, fol. 187; Hazelholt 

 Park and Hazelholt Copse are now in the 

 extreme north of the parish of Droxford. 



246 



Add. MS. 33285, fol. 186 ; there is 

 still a Stain's Cottage in the parish. 

 Add. Chart. 27679. 



10 Ibid. 28008. 



11 V.C.H. Hintt, i, 4.8 la. 



11 Foul. Aids, ii, 336 and 358. 

 u Inq. p.m. 35 Edw. I, pt, 2, No. 47. 

 14 Feet of F. Hants, East, 12 Hen. 

 III. 



