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HUNTON is a parochial chapelry of
Crawley, about 3 miles west from Micheldever station, in the Northern division of the
county, union, petty sessional division and county court district of Winchester, hundred of Buddlesgate, rural deanery, archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester. The
church of St. James is a small structure, repaired in 1865 at a cost of £700: it consists of nave only, with a small tower
containing 1 bell.
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Cottage at Hunton,
the photos are 100 years apart
Photos kindly submitted by Geoff Connell, Tasmania |
The register dates from the year 1564. The living is annexed to the benefice of Crawley, the tithes
having been commuted into rent charge, in value £190, in the patronage of Queen's College, Oxford, and held by the
Ven. Philip Jacob, M.A., of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, archdeacon and canon of Winchester. Robert Fitter, esq.,
is the owner and occupier of the whole of the parish.
Hunton Farmhouse and House are both
18th century The population in 1871 was 92.
Date: 9 May 1376.
Homage done by Sir John de Montacute, kt., for two knight's fees:
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Memorandum, quod ... ds. Johannes de Monte Acuto, miles, fecit
homagium
reverendo, etc., pro duobus feodis militum in Huntone in hundredo
de
Butelesgate in com. Sutht., que duo feoda Herbertus filius Petri
quondam tenuit, et que idem Johannes die quo fecit et prestitit
homagium tenuit et habuit, presentibus domino Laurencio de S.
Martino,
milite; Henrico Percehay, Waltero Cloptone, Joh. Middeltone;
Willelmo
Burgh, Michaele Skyllyng, Roberto Plesyngtone, Ricardo Pauncefot,
Thoma
Warenner; mm. Willelmo Lozynge, Johanne de Campeden, clericis;
Johanne
de Uvedale, Johanne Scures, Edmundo Missendene, Willelmo de
Guldeforde,
et aliis." [Reference: T.F. Kirkby, ed., Wykeham's Register, 2
(1899):
251-252].
The property named in the above record is the manor of Hunton (in
Crawley), Hampshire, which formed part of the inheritance of
Margaret
de Monthermer, wife of Sir John de Montagu. Sir John de Montagu
died
seised of this property in right of his wife in 1389 |
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