Description
Marchwood, a village and a parish in Hants. The village stands on Southampton Water, 4 miles from Totton station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Southampton. It is an agricultural village and a coastguard station, and has extensive powder magazines, an hospital, and barracks. Under the Local 'Government Act (1894) Marchwood has a parish council of six members. The parish was constituted an ecclesiastical one in 1843 and a civil one in 1894. Population of ecclesiastical parish, 695. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £150 with residence. The church is a modern edifice of white brick and stone. Tliere is a Congregational chapel.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
