East Stratton, Hampshire

Description
Stratton, East, a parish in Hants, 2 3/4 miles ENE of Micheldever station on the L. & S.W.R., and 8 NNE of Winchester. It has a post office under Micheldever station; money order and telegraph office, Micheldever. Acreage, 1996; population, 306. The manor belonged anciently to Hyde Abbey at Winchester; went at the dissolution to Sir T. Wriothesley; passed by marriage with a daughter of the last Earl of Southampton to William Lord Russell; and now belongs to the Earl of Northbrook, Stratton Park is the manorial mansion. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to Micheldever. The church, dedicated to All Saints, is a handsome building of flint and stone in the Decorated Perpendicular style, built at the expense of the Earl of Northbrook and his half-brother the Hon. Francis Baring, in 1888. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel and a working-men's club.