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Dateline 1875
HARBRIDGE is a parish and village, situated in
the southern
division of the county, union, petty sessional division and hundred of Ringwood, Fordingbridge county court district
diocese and archdeaconry of Winchester, and rural deanery of
Fordingbridge western division, 3½ miles north from Ringwood station,
108 from London, and 3½ south from Fordingbridge, on the west bank of
the river Avon.
All Saints church (built in 1832) with its handsome square tower, crowned with pinnacles and battlements, is a very picturesque
object from the valley of the Avon: it was rebuilt in 1839, has chancel and nave, tower containing 3 bells, to which a
small turret was added in 1863 at the north-west corner, at the sole expense of the Earl of Normanton, and a
handsome organ, presented by the Earl in 1855.
The register dates from the year 1571. The living is a rectory, annexed to the vicarage of Ringwood, joint annual value £960, in the gift of King's College, Cambridge, and held by the Rev.
George Williams, B.D., of that college. Somerley,
(Photo kindly contributed by Jon Baker)
To the South lies Somerly Park, home of the
Earls of Normanton. The mansion was built in 1792-5, to the designs of
Samuel Wyatt, and was extensively remodelled in 1868, the picture
gallery contains several paintings by Joshua Reynolds
A school has been built by the Earl, and is supported by a voluntary rate. On Plumley Heath are barrows.
The population in 1871 was 259.
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