Millbrook, Hampshire

Description
Millbrook, a village and a parish in Hants. The village stands at the mouth of the river Test or Anton, and has a station on the L. & S.W.R., 79 miles from London. It was known at Domesday as Melebroc, and had formerly, by means of the Andover Canal, a considerable trade in corn, malt, coal, and timber. It has a post and money order office under Southampton; telegraph office, Redbridge. The parish contains also the hamlets of Freemantle, Redbridge, and the chapelry of Shirley. Acreage, 3032; population of the civil parish, 17,777; of the ecclesiastical, 1879. The South Hants Waterworks are situated in this parish. Traces of an ancient five-arched bridge, and of a causeway, on the river Test, are at Redbridge. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; value, J£200 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church of St Nicholas, with the exception of the tower, was rebuilt in 1827. The churchyard contains a small granite obelisk to the memory of Pollok, author of the " Course of Time," who was buried here in 1829. The new parish church of Holy Trinity was erected in 1874, and is a handsome stone building in the Early English style. The rectory of Freemantle and the perpetual curacies of Shirley and St Mark, Fitzburgh, are separate benefices.