Description
Pamber, a parish in Hants, 3 1/2 miles S of the boundary with Berks, and 4 NNW of Basingstoke station on the G.W.R. and L. & S.W.R. Post town, Basingstoke; money order office, Tadley; telegraph office, Basingstoke Acreage, 2185 ; population of the civil parish, 709 ; of the ecclesiastical, 1178. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester, annexed to Monk Sherborne ; net value, £50 with residence. Patron, Queen's College, Oxford. The church is part of an ancient priory, shows curious features, and contains a fine ancient oaken effigies of a knight. The priory was a cell to Cerasy Abbey in Normandy, and passed to successively Eton College, St Julien's Hospital in Southampton, and Queen's College, Oxford.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
