FAWLEY HUNDRED 



HINTON AMPNER 



fourth are the printed marriage registers 1755-99 

 and 1 800- 1 1 ; and the fifth the baptisms and burials 

 1780-1812. 



In 1086 there was a church at 



4DfOffSON Exton which, together with the 



manor, was in the hands of the 



bishop of Winchester." In 1284 the king gave up 



all claim in the advowson of this church to the 

 bishop. 16 In 1291 the church owed a pension of 

 8 marks to the hospital of St. Cross at Winchester," 

 but this pension appears to have lapsed before 1535. 

 The bishop of Winchester is still patron of the church. 

 This parish is entitled to benefit 

 from the schools in Corhampton. 



CHARITIES 



HINTON AMPNER 



Hentune (xi cent.) ; Henton (xii cent.) ; Hinton 

 Ampncr or Amner (xiii cent.). 



The parish of Hinton Ampner contains 2,378 acres 

 of land rising gradually from west to east to a height 

 of more than 400 ft. above the sea level. 



Hinton Park, covering an area of 66 acres, in 

 which is Hinton House, the seat of Mr. Henry John 

 Dutton, fills up the whole of the north-west of the 

 parish ; immediately east of the park is the village, 

 and from here the parish stretches eastward in a long 

 irregular tract away to Brookwood in the south-east. 

 ' Brookwood ' is the residence of Mr. Daniel Mein- 

 ertzhagen, and stands in a finely wooded park of 

 86 acres through which the house is approached by 

 two good drives. As the main road from Winchester 

 to Petersfield sweeps over Lane End Down and leaves 

 Cheriton parish at Lane End hamlet, the Jolly Farmer 

 Inn, standing on the south of the road, seeming locally 

 in Cheriton, marks the beginning of Hinton Ampner 

 parish. North of the road is the low-lying country of 

 Hinton Marsh, a few yards south of which the Itchen 

 tributary, which runs through Cheriton, has its 

 beginning. Along the south side of the road are the 

 rising grounds of Hinton Park, up which winds one of 

 the carriage drives to Hinton House, though the house 

 itself, standing further south-west among the trees over 

 the brow of the hill, is hidden from the road. About 

 a quarter of a mile east of the 'Jolly Farmer' a steep 

 lane branches south from the main road, and here and 

 there on either side of this, as it runs uphill between 

 high banks and overhanging trees parallel with the 

 grounds of Hinton House, the cottages of the village 

 for the most part lie. Several, one group especially 

 which lies back behind long narrow gardens, are half 

 timbered and thatched and most picturesque in 

 appearance. At the top of the hill beyond the rectory, 

 which stands high on the left hand, the road branches 

 south-east to Brookwood and south-west towards 

 Kilmeston. Here, close on the road to the west, but 

 actually within the grounds of Hinton House, is the 

 church of All Saints, still west of which, half hidden 

 from view by the thickness of the trees, is Hinton 

 House itself. From here the ground falls away to the 

 south, so that the house, standing on the slope nearly 

 400 ft. above the ordnance datum, commands a wide 

 view, with Kilmeston immediately in the south, while 

 away to the south-west beyond Kilmeston rises Mill- 

 barrow Down. Several cottages and farm buildings 

 lie east of the church along the road which runs south- 

 east to Brookwood. 



Apart from the main group of houses thus clustered 

 near the church and manor-house, as the turnpike 



road runs east to Petersfield, between wide stretches 

 of green sward bordered by copper beeches and other 

 fine trees, or past occasional clearings with high stacks 

 of brushwood, every here and there scattered along 

 the road are other cottages belonging to Hinton 

 Ampner village. Here also south of the road, about 

 midway between Bramdean and Hinton Ampner, is 

 the schoolhouse, a red-brick building dating from 

 1 86 1, near which is the police station, facing a fine 

 clump of tall pine trees. 



The inhabitants are mostly employed in agricul- 

 ture, since the soil is clay loam with a subsoil of 

 chalk producing ordinary root and green crops. 



The greater proportion of the 1480^ acres of arable 

 land are in the centre of the parish intermingled with 

 the 56 1 J acres of permanent grass land. Of the 

 1 5 1 J acres of woodland the largest group is in the 

 south of the parish close to Kilmeston. 



Joan's Acre, Whitehill, Broomwood, and Lam- 

 borough Road are still existing place-names which 

 were mentioned in a Close Roll of 1650,' and un- 

 doubtedly date back to a much earlier time. 



The manor of HINTON or HINTON 



MANORS 4MPNER was held by the bishop of 



Winchester at the time of the Domesday 



Survey, it had always belonged to the Church ; the 



manor was assessed at eight hides and was worth loot* 



Hinton Ampner was among the manors confirmed 

 to the prior and convent of St. Swithun, Winchester, 

 in 1205, and again in 1285.* The manor was ap- 

 propriated to the office of almoner of St. Swithun's 

 (hence the name Ampner 

 which is a corruption of 

 almoner) ; it defrayed the 

 expenses of the almoner's office 

 and the almoner held the 

 manorial courts either in per- 

 son or by his bailiff. 4 



The manor remained in 

 the possession of the priory 

 of St. Swithun until the Dis- 

 solution 5 when it passed with 

 the other manors belonging 

 to the priory to the dean and 

 chapter of Winchester, by 

 whom it was leased for a term of 2 1 years to 

 Sir Thomas Stewkeley in 1637." At the sale of 

 the dean and chapter's lands in 1650 it was 

 bought by Sir John Hippesley for the sum of 

 2,587 I7/. $\d. There was then a capital mes- 

 suage called Prior's Hinton or the manor-house 

 consisting of a large hall, two parlours, and twenty-one 



STEWKILEY. Cheeky 

 argent and sable a fesse 

 and a border gules. 



V.C.H. Hants, 1,466. 



16 Chart. R. 12 Edw. I, m. 5. 



V PopeNicb. Tax. (Rec. Com.), III. 



1 Close, 1650, pt. 5, m. 43. 



V.C.H. Ha,tti, i, 467. 



8 Dugdale, Man. i, 211 ; and Cal. Pap. 

 Letters, \, 21 ; Cal. of Chart. R. 1257- 

 1303, p. 288. 



4 Obedientiary Rolls of St. S-withun's 

 (Hants Rec. Soc.), 76. 



3 2I 



6 Feud. Aids, ii, 3 20. In 1 5 3 5 the manor 

 of Hinton Ampner was worth 26 1 31. per 

 annum, Valor Eccl. (Rec. Com.), v, App. ix. 



Pat. 33 Hen. VIII, pt. 9, m. 34-40 ; 

 ibid. 2 Jas. I,.pt. 23, m. 37. 



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