Minstead, Hampshire

Description
Minstead, a village and a parish in Hants. The village stands 2 1/2 miles N by W of Lyndhurst, and 4 from Lyndhurst Road station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. The parish includes the tithings of Minstead, London Minstead, Cadnam, Canterton, and Fritham, and part of Emery Down; also the whole of Bolderwood Walk and the greater part of Castle Malwood Walk. Acreage, 10,246; population of the civil parish, 868; of the ecclesiastical, 2281. Minstead Manor is the chief residence. A triangular stone, near Stoney Cross, marks the site of the tree from which the arrow glanced that killed William Rufus. The living is a rectory, united with the vicarage of Lyndhurst, in the diocese of Winchester; value, £175 with residence. The church appears to be of the 13th century, but has been much mutilated.