THE HUNDRED OF BUDDLESGATE 



CHILBOLTON 



COMPTON 



CRAWLEY 



HUNTON CHAPELRY 

 HOUGHTON 

 HURSLEY 



CONTAINING THE PARISHES OF 



LITTLETON 



MICHELMERSH 



MILLBROOK 



NURSLING 



OTTERBOURNE 



SPARSHOLT 



LAINSTON EXTRA-PAROCHIAL 

 STOKE CHARITY 

 WEEKE 



AND 



WONSTON 



The above list represents the extent of the hundred at the time of the 

 Population Returns of 1831. The parishes of Ashley and Little Somborne 

 were added to the hundred before 1841, and probably at the same time the 

 parishes of Chilbolton, Houghton, Michelmersh, Millbrook, and Nursling 

 were transferred respectively to the hundreds of Wherwell, King's Somborne, 

 Thorngate, Mainsbridge, and Redbridge. 1 



In the Domesday Survey the hundred of Buddlesgate or 'Bitelesiete,' as it 

 is there called, included Chilbolton, 2 Crawley, 3 Nursling, 4 and part of Otter- 

 bourne. 5 The total assessment before the Conquest was 28 J hides, which 

 by 1086 had decreased to 2i. 6 The parishes of Compton, Littleton, Spars- 

 holt, and Weeke, as parcels of the great manor of Chilcomb, were probably 

 included in the entry of that manor under the heading of the hundred of 

 * Falemere,' 7 which is probably an error for ' Falelie,' the modern Fawley. 

 King's Somborne Hundred included Houghton 8 and the tithing of Awbridge 

 in the parish of Michelmersh, 9 and Mainsbridge Hundred, the entire parish 

 of Millbrook 10 and the tithing of Boyatt in the parish of Otterbourne, 11 

 while Wonston formed part of the hundred of Barton Stacey. 18 Stoke 

 Charity is entered, perhaps wrongly, under Meon Hundred, 13 while the parishes 

 of Hursley and Michelmersh are not mentioned. In the fourteenth century 

 the area of the hundred had greatly increased, comprising as it did Hursley 

 with the dependent hamlets of Ampfield, Pucknall, Merdon, Standon, Pitt, 

 West Pitt, and Silkstead, Michelmersh with the tithing of Awbridge, 1 * Stoke 

 Charity, 15 Compton with the hamlet of Sparkford, Nursling, Weeke with the 

 hamlet of Fullflood, Sparsholt, Littleton, Crawley with the chapelry of Hunton, 

 and Chilbolton, parts of the parishes of Otterbourne, Millbrook, and Wonston, 

 the tithings of Houghton Drayton in the parish of Houghton, and Brans- 

 bury in the parish of Barton Stacey, 1 * and parts of knights' fees in Wishanger 



Cf. the Population Returns of 1831 and 1841 



5 Ibid. 460. 



Ibid. 460, 464, 489, 494. 



9 Ibid. 480, 494. 

 " Ibid. 467(7, 48 8, 504^. 

 15 Ibid. 325, 348. 



4 Ibid. 464. 



' Ibid. 463^. 



10 Ibid. 467, 487, 489. 



13 Ibid. 461/5. 



16 Ibid, ii, 309. 



401 



' y.C.H. Hants, i, 464, 494. 



4 Ibid. 489. 



8 Ibid. 477, 480, 494, 503. 



11 Ibid, i, 500^. 



" Feud. Aids, ii, 309. 



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