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Wills and inventories survive for Steventon in Hampshire Record Office (HRO) and The National Archives (TNA).

Victorian Basingstoke was transformed by the coming of the railways and by a group of innovative entrepreneurs who made it an important manufacturi

‘Daneshill, 1 m. NW By Lutyens, 1903. Brick, Tudor and conventional.'[1]

These pages were missing from the Minute Books of the Basingstoke Poor Law Union in 1866, where the reports for the outlying parishes were transcri

Many villagers depended for small purchases on travelling salesmen or chapmen who sold  personal goods such as gloves, lace, pins, stockings, handk

Seven wills and four inventories survive for this period, including the wills of three wealthy testators from Andwell.

There are four surviving wills and five inventories for this period. Two wills of widows illustrate their varied roles in the economy.

This chapel served the parish of Farleigh Wallop where the Congregational cause was established in 1900.

Few wills are proved in this period of civil war and interregnum. Bishops were abolished in 1646 together with their probate courts.

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