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Wootton
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Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town NEW MILTON
Postcode district BH25
Dialling code 01425
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50°47′01″N1°39′12″W / 50.7837°N 1.6533°W / 50.7837; -1.6533 Coordinates: 50°47′01″N1°39′12″W / 50.7837°N 1.6533°W / 50.7837; -1.6533

Wootton is a hamlet in the civil parish of New Milton in Hampshire, England. It is in the south of the New Forest.

Hamlet (place) Small human settlement in a rural area

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Civil parish Territorial designation and lowest tier of local government in England

In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government, they are a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of ecclesiastical parishes which historically played a role in both civil and ecclesiastical administration; civil and religious parishes were formally split into two types in the 19th century and are now entirely separate. The unit was devised and rolled out across England in the 1860s.

New Milton town in Hampshire, UK

New Milton is a market town in the south west corner of Hampshire, England. It has a long high street with mainly 20th century architecture. It has six schools and two colleges within or nearby. The northern part of its civil parish, Bashley is in the New Forest and the south touches the coast, Barton-on-Sea. The town is equidistant between Lymington town centre and Christchurch town centres, 6 miles (10 km) away. The town holds a market every Wednesday and has a theatre, two large community centres, large sports centre and football club. As at 2011 the mean age of its population was 47 years, which was higher than the national average and that of Barton's electoral ward was 56.5 years.

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Overview

Wootton is just north of the village of Bashley in the civil parish of New Milton, although the farmland and woodland to the north of Wootton is in the parish of Brockenhurst. Locally the hamlet is known principally for the Rising Sun public house. [1] A popular local beauty spot is at nearby Wootton Bridge, where the road crosses the Avon Water. [2] [ deprecated source ]

Bashley, Hampshire village in United Kingdom

Bashley is a chapelry in the New Forest England. It takes up the north of New Milton civil parish of a type having a town council, and is a semi-rural community in New Forest District, to which it contributes about a quarter of the population of the ward of the same name. Bashley begins 2 miles (3 km) inland from the Solent. Most of its modest population is in its holiday park which has a chain-based convenience shop. Bashley has two garden centres, both football and cricket clubs, a few guesthouses, two riding schools/centres, a post office/store and a petrol station. Within the forest commons across cattle grids in its former hamlet of Wootton which has a large listed building pub-restaurant, once a drovers' retreat.

Brockenhurst village in the United Kingdom

Brockenhurst is the largest village by population within the New Forest in Hampshire, England. The nearest city is Southampton some 13 miles (21 km) to the North East, while Bournemouth is also nearby, 15 miles (24 km) South West. Surrounding towns and villages include Beaulieu, Lymington, Lyndhurst, and Sway.

History

The name Wootton derives from Old English for "wood farm". [3] According to the Domesday Book , Wootton ("Odetune") was held by one Godric from the King before 1066, but by 1086, most of the estate had been placed under the New Forest. [4] A Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in Wootton after a preacher visited the hamlet in 1843 and "converted a number of sinners . . . and formed a society of nine members." [5] The chapel building still survives and is a red brick structure with a slate roof on Tiptoe Road. [6] The two-storey brick building to the west of it was once a shop. [6] In 1855 the population of Wootton is reported as including an inn-keeper for the Rising Sun, a shop-keeper, a schoolmistress, a post-office "receiver", a shoemaker, two blacksmiths, and two carpenters. [7] In the 19th century Wootton had a Church of England village school, [8] but this burned down in 1914, and a new school was built in nearby Tiptoe. [9]

Old English, or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest historical form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers probably in the mid-5th century, and the first Old English literary works date from the mid-7th century. After the Norman conquest of 1066, English was replaced, for a time, as the language of the upper classes by Anglo-Norman, a relative of French. This is regarded as marking the end of the Old English era, as during this period the English language was heavily influenced by Anglo-Norman, developing into a phase known now as Middle English.

Domesday Book 11th-century survey of landholding in England as well as the surviving manuscripts of the survey

Domesday Book is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states:

Then, at the midwinter [1085], was the king in Gloucester with his council .... After this had the king a large meeting, and very deep consultation with his council, about this land; how it was occupied, and by what sort of men. Then sent he his men over all England into each shire; commissioning them to find out "How many hundreds of hides were in the shire, what land the king himself had, and what stock upon the land; or, what dues he ought to have by the year from the shire."

Edward the Confessor King of England

Edward the Confessor, also known as Saint Edward the Confessor, was among the last Anglo-Saxon kings of England. Usually considered the last king of the House of Wessex, he ruled from 1042 to 1066.

The Rising Sun public house at Wootton has been on its present site for over two hundred years. [1] The inn was rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century, and it was described by one visitor in 1907 as "the best hostelry and the most moderate I have come across in England". [10]

Wootton was once entirely within the parish of New Milton, but in 1926 the land to the north of the hamlet was annexed into the civil parish of Rhinefield, which itself was eventually incorporated into the parish of Brockenhurst. [11]

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References

  1. 1 2 The Rising Sun, Bashley, New Milton
  2. ↑ A walk in the King's forest, Mail Online, 22 September 2000. Retrieved 15 November 2011
  3. ↑ Old Hampshire Gazetteer - Wootton
  4. ↑ Domesday Map - Wootton
  5. ↑ John Petty, (1864), The history of the Primitive Methodist connexion, page 445
  6. 1 2 Hampshire Treasures Volume 5 (New Forest), page 265
  7. ↑ "Milton" entry in Post Office Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire, and Dorsetshire, (1855), pages 85-6
  8. ↑ A. T. Lloyd, J. E. S. Brooks, (1996), The History of New Milton and its Surrounding Area, Centenary Edition, page 37
  9. ↑ A. T. Lloyd, J. E. S. Brooks, (1996), The History of New Milton and its Surrounding Area, Centenary Edition, pages 38 and 78
  10. ↑ The Autocar (1907): Volume 19, page 432
  11. ↑ Relationships / unit history of Milton, A Vision of Britain through Time, retrieved 30 December 2011
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