Wood Mills and the Salmon Fishery
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For centuries the property belonged to the Bishops of Winchester, and by right tended to be leased to the owner of the Manor of South Stoneham, often together with the Itchen Fishery.
There is a sequence of title deeds for the property in Bundle 21, with leases for three lives to: Anne Clerke (1641[2]), William Clerke (1675[3]), Alice Clarke (1685[4]), Edward Fleming (1698[5]), William Sloane (1741[6], 1743[7]), and Hans Sloane (1774[8], 1792[9]).
Edward Fleming was assigned a lease of Wood Mills from Edmund Pitman in November 1697[10], and then took on a new lease from the Bishop of Winchester in February 1698[11]. A few months later Edward assigned the lease to Edmund Dummer (d,1713), surveyor of His Majesty's Navy, who ten years later was to build South Stoneham House closeby[12].
John Barton Willis Fleming acquired the property with the Manor of South Stoneham before 1819.
The Mill was completely destroyed by fire in 1824[13].
When Queen Victoria visited Wood Mills in 1846, she disembarked from her barge by means of 'a relic of the old residence of the Flemings at Stoneham', an 'ancient yew staircase' fixed in the River Itchen to enable landing at any stage of the tide.
Tenants and occupiers of Wood Mills
Tenants of Wood Mills Salmon Fishery
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References
- ↑ Variations are Wood Mill, Woodmill, and Woodmills.
- ↑ Lease of Wood Mills and fishery, 1641 (WFMS:340 | HRO 102M71/T143)
- ↑ Lease of Wood Mills and fishery, 1675 (WFMS:341 | HRO 102M71/T144)
- ↑ Lease of Wood Mills and fishery, 1685 (WFMS:342 | HRO 102M71/T145)
- ↑ Lease of Wood Mills and fishery, 1698 (WFMS:343 | HRO 102M71/T146)
- ↑ Lease of Wood Mills and fishery, 1741 (WFMS:344 | HRO 102M71/T147)
- ↑ Lease of Wood Mills and fishery, 1743 (WFMS:354 | HRO 102M71/T157)
- ↑ Lease of Wood Mills and fishery, 1774 (WFMS:355 | HRO 102M71/T158)
- ↑ Lease of Wood Mills and fishery, 1792 (WFMS:356 | HRO 102M71/T159)
- ↑ Assignment of lease, 11 Nov 1697 HRO 18M67/227
- ↑ Lease of Wood Mills and fishery, 1698 (WFMS:343 | HRO 102M71/T146)
- ↑ Counterpart of an assignment of lease, 2 May 1698 HRO 18M67/229
- ↑ Destruction of Wood Mills by fire, 1824
- ↑ Destruction of Wood Mills by fire, 1824
- ↑ Destruction of Wood Mills by fire, 1824
- ↑ Destruction of Wood Mills by fire, 1824
- ↑ Lease of Salmon Fishery in the salmon pool at Wood Mill, 1830 (WFMS:422 | HRO 102M71/E60)
- ↑ Lease of Salmon Fishery in the salmon pool at Wood Mill, 1842 (WFMS:424 | HRO 102M71/E62)