Description

Ampfield, a district parish forming part of the civil parish of Hursley, Hants. The village stands 4 miles ENE of Romsey, and 3 from Chandler's Ford station on the Salisbury branch of the L. & S.W.R., and has a post office under Romsey; money order office, Hursley; telegraph office, Chandler's Ford railway station. The district parish was constituted in 1841, and is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £200. The church is a neat Gothic structure, erected at the expense of the late Sir William Heathcote, Bart., and surrounded by a model burying-ground. Population, 457.