Micheldever, Hampshire

Description
Micheldever, a village and a parish in Hants. The village stands 2 1/2 miles SE of Micheldever station on the L. & S.W.B, 58 from London, and 7 NNE of Winchester. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. The parish contains the tithings of North Brook, South Brook, West Stratton, and Weston Colley. Acreage, 7820; population of the civil parish, 1049; of the ecclesiastical, 1355. The parish has a council of ten members under the Local Government Act, 1894, and returns three members to the district council. The property is all in one estate, belonged anciently to Hyde Abbey at Winchester, went at the dissolution to the Earl of Southampton, passed by marriage to William Lord Russell, and now belongs to the Earl of Northbrook. An embankment about 100 feet high, formed across an expanse of meadows, carries the railway in the neighbourhood of Micheldever station. The living is a vicarage, united with the curacy of East Stratton, in the diocese of Winchester; gross value, £290 with residence. Patron, the Earl of Northbrook. The church succeeded an old one destroyed by fire in 1806, was built at a cost of £10,000-defrayed by Sir Francis Baring; retains the tower of the previous church, and contains monuments by Flaxman to the Baring family. There are alms-houses for fifteen poor people, and a Methodist chapel.