Boarhunt, Hampshire

Description
Boarhunt, a parish in Hants, on the N slope of Portsdown Hill, 2 miles NE of Fareham station on the L. & S.W.R. Post town Fareham, which is the money order and telegraph office. Acreage, 2535; population of the; civil parish, 333 ; of the ecclesiastical, including Southwick,. 927. North Boarhunt, 2 miles from the church inland, is where the greater part of the population live, and carry on the business of strawberry growing, &c. Portsdown Hill has an altitude of 447 feet, commands brilliant views, and is crowned by an obelisk to the memory of Lord Nelson. The living is a peculiar donative, with Southwick, in the diocese of Winchester. The church is Transition Norman, or possibly Saxon, but has been restored. Fort Nelson is an extensive fort, and will hold very large and heavy guns; it forms one of the bill defences of Portsmouth harbour. There is a small Wesleyan chapel.