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Fordingbridge in Southampton County England History and GeographyFORDINGBRIDGE, a market town and parish in the hundred of FORDINGBRIDGE, New Forest (West) division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 20 miles (W. by N.) from Southampton, through Ringwood, and 92 (SW. by W.) from London, containing, with the tything of Godshill, sometimes deemed extra-parochial, 2602 inhabitants. This town is noticed in Domesday-book under the name of Forde, in which it is further stated to have contained a church and two mills. It has suffered repeatedly by fire, and particularly at the beginning of the last century. It is pleasantly situated on the borders of the New Forest, and on the banks of the Upper Avon, which is here navigable, and crossed by a bridge of seven arches at the south-east entrance into the town which is plentifully supplied with good water. There is a sail-cloth manufactory, and there was formerly one for bed-ticks and checks to a considerable extent, but of these only a small quantity is now made. The market is on Friday; and an annual fair is held on the 9th of September, chiefly for amusement. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £30. 2. 3½., and in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of King's College, Cambridge. The church, dedicated to St. Mary, consists of a nave and aisles, with a small north transept, over which rises a square tower and two chancels parallel with each other, one east of the nave, the other beyond the north aisle and transept: the tower is about seventy feet high, and of excellent workmanship: the south chancel is the most ancient part of the building, and is supposed to have been erected about the commencement of the thirteenth century. The west window, which is very large, is a beautiful specimen of the decorated English style. There is a chapel of ease at Ibsley, in this parish. Here are places of worship for the Society of Friends and Independents. In 1801, Catherine Eycott Bulkeley gave £200 three per cent. consols. in trust, to apply the dividends towards the support of the Sunday school; and in 1824, Sarah Dale bequeathed £50 for the same purpose: this charity is further supported by voluntary contributions. A rent-charge of £5, payable every fourth year, was given by John Dodingto, in 1638, to apprentice poor children of this parish. There are the remains of several ancient encampments in the neighbourhood, the principal of which is at Godshill, about two miles from the town. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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