Description
Chilcomb, a parish in Hants, near the river Itchen, 2 miles SE of Winchester. Post town, Winchester; money order and telegraph office, Winchester. Acreage, 2146; population, 1052. There are extensive limeworks. the living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; value, £200. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is Saxon (1060), with a very singular window of later date, and includes in its pavement some encaustic tiles. The parish reaches to Winchester, and includes the new part of the E side of the city. A new church (All Saints) was built for the city portion of the parish in 1894. A very interesting account of the parish as " Ciltecombe" is in Domesday Book.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
