Description
Upham, a parish, with a village, in Hants, 2 1/2 miles NNW of Bishops Waltham station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Bishops Waltham; telegraph office, Bishops Waltham. Acreage, 2883; population, 688. There is a parish council consisting of six members. Relics of a Roman villa were found in 1849. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £260 with residence. The church is in mixed architecture and good. There is a chapel for Bible Christians. Dr Young, author of " Night Thoughts," was a native.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
