The visitor to Southampton coming from the west will take the M271 to Redbridge and join up with the A36 trunck road at Redbridge and will straight away be on a large dual carriageway with a couple of flyovers. On the left just past he second flyover the tall spire of Millbrook's Holy Trinity Church looks down on you as if to vet you before entering the city.
 

All along this busy road there is a mixture of both residential and industrial complexes, the latter being mainly along the side of the road nearest to the docks. Millbrook Park Estate is on the other side of the road and this was built in the 1950s and is a huge expanse of what was council housing, now most of the houses are bought under Margaret Thatcher's 'Right to Buy' scheme. The estate borders onto the main Romsey to Southampton Road in the North and in the west it abuts the railway line running alongside the River Test. The eastern side is swallowed up in the suburbs of Freemantle and Shirley before entering Southampton.

The Dominating spire of
Holy Trinity Church can be
seen for miles around

In the 19th century Millbrook was just a parish village with a station that stood on the Southampton and Dorchester railway line in the Southern Division of the county, Mansbridge hundred, South Stoneham union, Southampton Petty sessional division and county court district in the diocese and arch-deanery of Winchester and the rural deanery of Southampton and lies two miles from the city centre.

The old church of St Nicholas

St Nicholas church is plain with a chancel, nave and tower that had 1 bell and was also a chapel of ease. The parish of Millbrook also includes FREEMANTLE, FOURPOSTS HILL, MAYBUSH, REGENTS PARK, REDBRIDGE, SHIRLEY and WIMPSON  and the population was 11,845 in 1871.

The church of St. Nicholas is a plain structure, with a chancel, nave, and tower containing 1 bell: it has accommodation for about 750 persons, and is now used as a chapel of ease, and the rector, or his curate, officiates. The charities are £8 yearly. The principal landowner is Lady Barker Mill. 

The church of the Holy Trinity was build in 1874 and was builkt to replace the earlier church of St Nicholas. Built in the English style by Newman and Son of Winchester it was designed by the architect H. Woodyer.

Millbrook Road showing the tank traps in 1945

IMAGES OF HOLY TRINITY CHURCH

The front of the church, the path leading from the gate consists of old headstones		The Lych gate at Holy Trinity
Interior of the church
The Crucifix		The font with its unusual cap which can be raised via a counterweight
The counterweight to the font lid		The high altar
Interior view of the church		The brass lecturn
A Painting in the church		The pulpit

HISTORY OF ST NICOLAS CHURCH