THE HUNDRED OF FAWLEY 



WITH THE 



LIBERTY OF ALRESFORD 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



OLD ALRESFORD KILMESTON TICHBORNE 



AVINGTON MARTYR WORTHY WITH TWYFORD 



BISHOPSTOKE CHILLAND WEST MEON 



CHERITON WITH BEAU- MEDSTED WIELD 



WORTH MORESTEAD WINNALL ' 



CHILCOMB OVINGTON 



EASTON OWSLEBURY WITH THE LIBERTY OF 

 EXTON BAYBRIDGE ALRESFORD 



HINTON AMPNER PRIVETT 



At the time of the Domesday Survey the hundred of Fawley (Falelie, 

 Falley) included Alresford, Kilmeston, Twyford, Owslebury, Easton, Bishop- 

 stoke, Chilcomb (which included Winnall and Morestead), and Avington ; 

 the amount of the land assessed was 89 hides, Alresford alone being rated at 

 42 hides.* 



West Meon and Exton, afterwards in Fawley Hundred, were at this time 

 in Meonstoke Hundred ; and Ovington, part of Wield, and Hinton Ampner 

 were part of Mainsbridge. The land in these five places was assessed at 38 

 hides. Privett, Tichborne, Cheriton, Martyr Worthy, and Medsted are not 

 mentioned in the Domesday Survey ; but Privett was probably included in 

 West Meon, Medsted and the rest of Wield in Alresford, and Tichborne 

 possibly in Twyford. 



By 1 316 the hundred had practically assumed its modern proportions 

 except that Havant and Alverstoke were assessed as part of Fawley. 3 Havant 

 was still rated in Fawley in 1465, for in that year the tithing-man of Havant 

 paid a fine at the hundred court of Fawley to have release from suit of court 

 of four men until Michaelmas.* In an exactly similar way, Old Alresford, 

 Medsted, and Wield, which formed part of Alresford liberty (q.v.), still 

 continued to be assessed with Fawley, and sent tithing-men to the Fawley 

 hundred court. Consequently, therefore, when the bishop ceased to hold 

 his Alresford hundred courts, Old Alresford, Medsted, and Wield were again 

 reckoned in Fawley Hundred, and the term 'Alresford liberty' was taken 

 to comprise merely the borough of New Alresford, as in the population returns 

 for 1831. 



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



1 V.C.H. Hants, i, 459, 464. 3 Feud. Aids, ii, 320. 



4 Eccl. Com. Ct. R. bdle. 80, No. I. The fine was lod. 



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