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Wherwell in Southampton County England History and GeographyWHERWELL, a parish in the hundred of WHERWELL, Andover division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 3¾ miles (S.S.E.) from Andover, containing, with the tything of Westover, 622 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, with the perpetual curacies of Bullington and Tufton annexed, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £14, and in the patronage of Colonel Iremonger, as rector of the sinecure rectory, which was a prebend in the nunnery of Wherwell, and is rated in the king's books at £44. 11. 0½. The church is dedicated to the Holy Cross. The rivers Test and Ande run through the parish; the latter falls into the Redbridge and Andover canal. A fair for cattle is held on September 24th. A Benedictine nunnery was founded and amply endowed here, about 986, by Elfrida, Queen Dowager, in expiation of the murders of her first consort, Athelwold, and her step-son, Edward the Martyr; she spent the latter part of her life in it, and was buried within its walls. It was dedicated to the Holy Cross and St. Peter, and at the dissolution had a revenue of £403. 12. 10. There is a very extensive wood in this parish, in a recess of which is a stone cross, with the following inscription on its base: 'About the year of our Lord DCCCCLXIII Upon this spot beyond the time of memory, Called Dead Man's Plack, Tradition reports that Edgar (Sirnamed the Peaceable) King of England, in the ardour of Youth, Love and Indignation, Slew with his own hand his treacherous, and ungrateful Favourite, Earl Athelwold, owner of this Forest of Harewood, in resentment of the Earl's having basely betrayed his Royal confidence, and perfidiously married his Intended Bride The beautious Elfrida, Daughter of Ordgar, Earl of Devonshire, after Wife to King Edgar and by him Mother of King Etheldred the 2nd, which Queen Elfrida, after Edgar's Death, murdered his eldest Son, King Edward the Martyr, and founded the Nunnery of Whor-well.' From Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of England 1831, courtesy of Databases 4 Sale |
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