Froxfield, Hampshire

Description
Froxfield, a village and a parish in Hants. The village stands 3 1/2 miles WNW of Petersfield town and station on the L. & S.W.R., is a beautiful place, and has a post office under Petersfield; money order office, East Meon; telegraph office, Priveth. Acreage of the civil parish, 4909; population, 668; of the ecclesiastical, 642. Basing House, near the village, is a fine mansion. An ancient earthwork is here, and has yielded many fragments of Roman pottery. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; value, £210. The-church was built in 1863 at a cost of £2300, consists of nave, north aisle and chancel, is of flint with stone dressings, and includes some Norman work of the previous church, which was of Norman date. A new church, St Peter's-on-the-Green, was built in 1887. It is a small building of flint in the Early Engli&h style. There is a Wesleyan chapel.