ROWNHAMS lies between Southampton and Romsey and is a consolidated chapelry and ecclesiastical district that has been formed from the parishes of Romsey Extra, Nursling and North Baddesley, 4 miles west-by-north-west from Southampton, 3½ south-east from Romsey, and 3 northeast from Totton railway station, and about the same north from Redbridge station, in the hundred of Buddlesgate, union of Romsey and Hursley, rural deanery of Romsey, archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, overlooking the valley of the Test, and bounded by the road from Southampton to Romsey.

HISTORY OF ROWNHAMS HOUSE

The Horns Inn		The old school house now a community centre
The Church of St John the Evangelist
The pathway to the church		Wild orchids growing in the churchyard  which is now a Wild Flower conservation area

The church of St. John the Evangelist, a stone edifice, in the Decorated style, was erected in 1855-6, at the sole cost of Mrs. Colt; it has 220 sittings, all free : it has chancel, nave and two transepts, tower with spire and bell, and stained windows. The register dates from 1856.

There is a National school for boys and girls, which, with the parsonage house, a red-brick building in the Elizabethan style, was erected by Mrs. Colt, who resided at Rownhams Park. 

The population in 1871 was 461.

Lower Toothill. The site of the brickworks of H. Read and Company, which produced red bricks, the works closed in 1939. The brick wall around Broadlands Estate was built with bricks made at Toothill, this is recorded on a row of bricks built into the wall.

Rownhams is covered by Nursling.