Morestead
Morestead lies in downland just outside of Winchester and has a Roman Road and a church font that is dated from the Norman times. On the top of Hazely Down there is a wayside cross which was erected in remembrance of the men who served with the London Regiment and who were he in the 1914 - 1918 war and the trees that are here wee also planted in their memory

The village itself is made up of just a couple of cottages, the church and the rectory and near to the church it is said that there is a Roman well. Morestead Down sweeps away to the north-east of the Roman road. To the south is Morestead farm and further south is Morestead House and its large game farm. The Firs which is the home of Joseph Storey Curtis who owned a large training stable lies to the south west. accessed: 06 February 2007.

 
A view of Winchester from the Morestead Road   Another view taken from the firing ranges
 
The 11th century Norman church
 

The War Memorial in the church
REMEMBER BEFORE GOD THOSE FROM
THIS PARISH WHO LOST THEIR LIVES
IN THE WORLD WAR
1939 - 1945
Thomas Jeffrey Earle RNVR
Aubrey Louis Edwards RA
Arthur Andrew Metcalf RA
John Victor Phillips RN
Albert Charles Skeates RE

  

The Font

Morestead it seems was originally one of eight sub-manors in Chilcomb which is recorded in the Domesday Book and also one of nine churches also included in Chilcomb and may have become the parish church of the village.

The Manor was in the hands of the Bishop of Winchester until the latter part of the 13th century as it not mentioned by name in a charter of 1205 when various manors passed into the hands of the Prior of St Swithun's. In 1284 it was owned by the prior and convent and in 1338 Philip Marmyon conveyed "a meesauge, a caruate of land, 20 acres of wood and 8s. rent in Morestead" to John Sauncere and Julia his wife, to be held by John and Julia and the heirs of Julia.

1525 saw the manor conveyed by John Dyker to William Thorpe and others, and after the dissolution Morestead with other lands that used to belong to St Swithun's became part of the dean and chapter of Winchester Cathedral and they granted Morestead Manor to Richard Lyster.

Sir John Leigh eventually purchased Morestead Manor in 1612 and in 1682 it was owned by the Cathedral which held it until the middle of the 19th century. At some date between 1859 and 1866 it is believed it was purchased by the Earl of Northesk and his grandson is the present earl is lord of the manor.