Description
Rownhams, a chapelry in Nursling, Romsey, and North Baddesley parishes, Hants, 1 1/2 mile from Nursling station on the L. & S.W.R., and 4 1/2 miles NW of Southampton. It was constituted in 1856, and its post town is Redbridge, under Southampton; money order and telegraph office, Nursling. Population, 515. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; gross value, £160 with residence. The church is a handsome building of stone in the Decorated style, and contains some good stained glass windows. St John's Convalescent Home for Girls was erected in 1876.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
