MAINSBRIDGE HUNDRED 



BOTLEY 



sides have been shortened at each end to fit it, show- 

 ing that the slab was no part of the original tomb. 

 The sides have quatrefoiled panels, with shields bear- 

 ing the cross of the Hospitallers, and between each 

 pair of such panels a narrower panel with a smaller 

 quatrefoil above a shield charged with three chapes 

 on a bend. The same coat occurs in old glass in the 

 east window, the tinctures being gules with the bend 

 or and the three chapes azure. In the window 

 and on the tomb the letter T also occurs, as a capital 

 letter only on the tomb, and both as capital and small 

 in the window. The tomb is clearly that of a 

 Hospitaller, and of the first 

 half of the fifteenth century, 

 but the arms do not help to an 

 identification of the person. 



In the north-east angle of 

 the chancel is the mural monu- 

 ment of John More, 1620, 

 and his son who died two 

 years later, aged twenty. The 

 inscription is on a tablet 

 framed by Tuscan columns 

 carrying a rounded pediment 

 with heraldry, and below is 

 a medallion with a putto on 

 a skull, holding a winged book 

 in his right hand. In the 



chancel floor are several slabs to the Dunch family, 

 and at the south door of the nave is a Purbeck marble 

 coffin slab. In the nave floor is a large marble 



MORI. Ermine a ehe- 

 veron sable between three 

 Moan 1 , head* table ivith 

 two i-words argent on thi 

 cheveron. 



slab, 8 ft. 6 in. by 3 ft. 10 in., with indents for an 

 inscription plate and a heart-shaped sinking. 



The font, which stands a little to the east of the 

 south door of the nave, is of Purbeck marble, with an 

 octagonal bowl, stem, and base. The details of the 

 base suggest a fourteenth-century date. 



There are two bells, the treble being blank, and 

 the second inscribed ' RB 1595.' They are hung to 

 shallow stocks which have a long projection at one 

 end to which the bell-rope is fastened. 



The communion cup and cover paten are of 1 6 1 8, 

 and there is a standing paten of 1716, inscribed 

 'For Communion Table in Badsly 1716,' and 

 two modern cruets. 



The first book of the registers runs from 1682 to 

 1816, the marriages not being entered in this book 

 after 1754. The churchwardens' accounts are com- 

 plete from 1674, the building of the west tower being 

 noted in the first year. 



The church of North Baddesley is 

 jlDPOWSON mentioned in the Domesday Survey ; 

 but, like the manor, it had passed 

 into the possession of the Knights of St. John of 

 Jerusalem before 1 167," although no particulars of the 

 grant can be found. The church remained with the 

 Knights Hospitallers until the dissolution of the 

 monasteries, and was granted with the manor to Sir 

 Thomas Seymour in 1539." Since that date the 

 history of the advowson is identical with that of 

 North Baddesley Manor (q.v.). 



There are no endowed charities. 



BOTLEY 



Botelie (xi cent.) ; Bottele (xiii cent.). 



The parish of Botley, comprising nearly 2,037 

 acres, of which 23 are covered by water, is situated 

 in the Fareham division of the county. The ground 

 is slightly undulating, having an average altitude of 

 5 oft., but at one point in the west, and another in 

 the north of the parish, at Braxell's Farm, it rises as 

 much as I oo ft. above the ordnance datum. 



The greater part of the land is under cultivation, 

 667 acres are permanent grass, and 245 acres are 

 occupied by woods and plantations. 1 



The principal crops raised are wheat, barley, oats, 

 and roots. Strawberry-growing is the principal 

 industry of the place, which provides the markets at 

 London and Southampton. In the extreme south 

 are clay-pits which formerly supplied material for the 

 Hoe Moor brickworks, now closed, and the gravel 

 pits in the east of the parish are now no longer used. 



The two small wharves which constitute Botley 

 Harbour are now almost deserted, for the timber 

 trade which originally made it important has vanished. 

 Formerly timber used to be brought into the mills 

 and either sawn up or roughly dressed and floated 

 down the river to the waiting ships. The hoop- 

 making trade, which employed a number of hands, has 

 disappeared, and the old paper-mill near Curdridge, 

 known as Frog's Mill, where the paper for the 

 Morning Post was formerly manufactured, is now 

 disused. 



Just above the bridge is a large mill, reputed to be 

 the largest in Hampshire, the wheel of which is 



turned by a stream which rises beyond Bishop's 

 Waltham. This is evidently the mill referred to by 

 William Cobbett in his Rural Rides, when describing 

 a mill turned by fresh water which falls into the 

 salt water, as at Beaulieu. 



The small market town of Botley stands on the 

 River Hamble, which is here tidal and navigable for 

 barges, at the junction of the high roads from 

 Winchester and Fareham, and is for the most part 

 built along a main street running east and west, 

 widening out to a market-place, and continued east- 

 ward over the river. In the market-place are a few 

 large buildings, the most important being the Market 

 Hall, originally built by the Farmers' Club in 1848, and 

 now vested in trustees nominated by the club or the 

 parish. It stands on the south side, with a portico in 

 front, and a turret with a clock above, and though in 

 itself of no particular merit, gives an air of import- 

 ance to the place, and groups with several good red- 

 brick buildings in a very satisfactory manner. 



One side of the market-place belongs to the lord 

 of the manor, who used to collect the tolls there at 

 the fortnightly markets, which are no longer held. 

 These tolls are now leased to the Market Hall trustees, 

 who have also charge of the public weigh-bridge. 

 There is a yearly root show held by the Farmers' Club. 



From the north-east corner of the market-place the 

 road to Winchester branches off, bordered with houses 

 for some little distance. One of these, on the east 

 side, is a pretty seventeenth-century timber building 

 with a projecting upper story. On this road is a 



Pipe Roll, 13 Hen. II. 



3 



1 Dugdale, Man. vi, 80-5 

 465 



1 Statistics from Bd. of Agric. (190;). 



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