Stoneham Estate
From The Muniment Room, a resource for social history, family history, and local history.
North Stoneham Common • North Stoneham Farm • Bassett • Northend • Swaythling • Burgess Street |
The manor of North Stoneham, with North Stoneham Park, was purchased in 1599 by Sir Thomas Fleming. (He had previously acquired neighbouring North Baddesley manor around 1583, which he sold on around 1602.) The estate included a detachment at Boyatt Meadow in Otterbourne.
Over the years, the Stoneham Estate was enlarged with the purchase of neighbouring properties: Swaythling and Hatch manors, with Swaythling House, were acquired (or partly inherited) in 1776; South Stoneham manor, with South Stoneham House and Wood Mills, in 1819; and Mainsbridge alias Swaythling and Pollack manors in 1821; and the Itchen fishery in 1828 (bringing the Stoneham Estates to nearly 5,000 acres). The last major addition was a portion of the Brambridge Estate, purchased in 1861. A new Willis Fleming family home, Stoneham Park House, was built in 1913, but sold just a few years later. South Stoneham House was a principal home of the Fleming family at different periods of the 19th century.
North Stoneham House, the ancestral mansion at Stoneham Park, rebuilt in 1818, was demolished in 1939. The major portions of the Stoneham estates were sold at two auctions, in 1913 and 1953.
The Stoneham Estate was surveyed by John Whitcher in 1818.
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Manors
- Manor of North Stoneham
- Manor of South Stoneham
- Manor of Mainsbridge alias Swaythling
- Manor of Hatch
- Manor of Pollack
Villages and hamlets
- Bassett Green village (aka Old Bassett, Bassett Lane and Bassett Lane End)
- Burgess Street hamlet (Burgastreet)
- Northend
- Middle hamlet (aka Middle Stoneham, or 'North Stoneham village')
- Swaythling village (aka 'South Stoneham village')
Farms and estates
- Boyatt Meadow (in Otterbourne parish)
- Brambridge Estate, part of
- Burgess Street Farm (aka Burgastreet)
- Cantles
- Channels Farm
- Common Farm (Stoneham)
- Common Barn Farm
- Coward's Farm
- Doncaster Farm
- Durmans (aka Middle Farm)
- Felmar Farm (aka Velmore, Fulmore)
- Grange Farm
- Great Gallants
- Hollybrook Estate, part of
- Home Farm
- Kiln Bargain
- New Hut Farm
- North Stoneham Common
- North Stoneham Farm
- North Stoneham Park
- North Stoneham Rectory & Glebe
- Northend Farm
- Pages Farm
- Park Farm (within North Stoneham Park)
- Pointout Farm
- Portswood Farm
- Red Lodge Farm
- Roger's Bargain
- South Stoneham Farm
- South Stoneham Park (aka South Stoneham House Estate)
- Swaythling Farm
- Titlark Farm (Marlbrook Pond Farm)
- Underwood Farm
- Wood Mills & Salmon Pool fishery
Woods
Commons
Other rights
- Advowson of North Stoneham Manor
- Sporting rights
- Itchen fishery