Fleet, Hampshire

Description
Fleet, an ecclesiastical parish in Hants, with a station on the L. & S.W.R., 36 1/4 miles from London, and 5 by road from Famborough, Aldershot, or Farnham. It is remarkably healthy and bracing, amidst heather and pines, 280 feet above the sea. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Winchfield. Population, 1171. The parish is traversed by the Basingstoke Canal for many miles without a lock, and its wooded banks make it a favourite boating excursion through Dogmersfield Park, &c. There is a large sheet of water with wild fowl through which the S.W.R. passes, which, used formerly to pay an annual tribute of fish to Winchester monastery. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Winchester; gross value, £250 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is. a good red brick building, remarkable for its porch, a kind of cloister extending along the whole west front, and said to be copied from a church near Verona. This church gives an excellent example of successful mural stencilling. There is. a fine public hall, and Methodist and Baptist chapels.