Description
Wootton St Lawrence, a parish, with a village and three tithings, in Hants, 3 1/2 miles W of Basingstoke station on the L. & S.W.R. It has a post and money order office under Basingstoke; telegraph office, Sherborne St John. Acreage, 4406; population of the civil parish, 945; of the ecclesiastical, 607. There is a parish council consisting of seven members. Manydown House and Tangier Park are chief residences. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £140 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. The church was rebuilt and enlarged in 1864, and contains monuments of the Hooke and Wither families.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
