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Highclere in Southampton County England History and GeographyHIGHCLERE, a parish in the hundred of EVINGAR, Kingsclere division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 8½ miles (N. by W.) from Whitchurch, containing 457 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the incumbent, rated in the king's books at £7. 13. 9. The Earl of Carnarvon was patron in 1825. The church, dedicated to St. Michael, was rebuilt in the time of Charles II. by Sir Robert Sawyer, Attorney General in that and the succeeding reign, who was buried here. A National school has been established, and is supported partly by subscription, and partly from an annuity of about £4. 4., the moiety of certain dividends bequeathed by the Rev. Archibald Gardner. Highclere is within the jurisdiction of the Cheyney Court held at Winchester every Thursday, for the recovery of debts to any amount. It was anciently part of the bishoprick of Winchester, and is recorded as such in Domesday-book. The bishops had a palace here, in which they occasionally resided, until the bailiwick held by them was, in the reign of Edward VI., dismembered by Bishop Poynet, and vested in the crown. Upon the site of the original edifice, which stood in a well-wooded and beautiful park, upwards of thirteen miles in circumference, is a fine mansion, erected by the Hon. Robert Herbert, and greatly enlarged by the Earl of Carnarvon, his descendant; and just without the park gate is Beacon hill, on the level summit of which is an ancient encampment. On a plain, about a mile from this camp, are some tumuli, or barrows, of considerable size, with three smaller ones. A mile and a half eastward from Beacon hill, on an eminence called Ladle Hill, is a circular intrenchment, enclosing an area of about eight acres; southward from this are three barrows; and at a short distance towards the north-north-east, on the declivity of the hill, is another small circular work, pitched entirely with flint-stones. Dr. Jeremiah Miller, a learned antiquary, was born here in 1713; he died in 1784. From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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