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Beaulieu in Southampton County England History and GeographyBEAULIEU, a liberty and parochial chapelry in the New Forest (eastern) division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 6¼ miles (N.E.) from Lymington, containing, with an extra-parochial district within its limits, 1206 inhabitants. The living is a donative, in the patronage of Lord Montagu. The chapel is dedicated to St. Bartholomew. Bealieu is situated on a river of the same name, which rises in the New Forest, at the foot of a hill about a mile and a half to the north-east of Lyndhurst, and is navigable hence to the Isle of Wight channel, which bounds the parish on the south. On reaching the village, it spreads into a wide surface, covering several acres, on the eastern side of which is the spot where the famous abbey formerly stood, the outer walls of which, or a large part of them, still remain. It was founded, in 1204, by King John, for thirty monks of the reformed Benedictine order, and was dedicated to the blessed Virgin Mary: its revenue, at the dissolution in 1540, was £428. 6. 8. It possessed the privilege of sanctuary, and afforded an asylum to Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI., after the battle of Barnet, and to Perkin Warbeck, in the reign of Henry VII. Various immunities, among which is exemption from arrest for debt, are still attached to the manor. Near the abbey was a building, called an hospital, inhabited by the knights of St. John of Jerusalem, where travellers, and persons in distress were relieved, the revenue of which was, at the dissolution, £100. This hospital was founded a little previously to the abbey, and, from the beauty of its situation, gave the name of Beaulieu to this place; it stood at the distance of about half a mile from the water's edge, at high water mark, on a rising ground, having a gentle slope down to the water, and commanding, toward the right, a view of Hurst Castle, and the Needles; to the left, of Spithead, and the entrance to Portsmouth harbour. Beaulieu has long been noted for the manufacture of coarse sacking. Fairs for horses and horned cattle are held, April 15th, and September 4th. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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