Whitchurch, Hampshire

Description
Whitchurch, a small town and a parish in Hants. The town has stations on the L. & S.W.R. and G.W.R., 59 miles from London, and 12 N of Winchester. It has a post, money order, and telegraph office. It is a borough by prescription, governed by a parish council, sent two members to Parliament till disfranchised by the Reform Act of 1832, is a polling-place, and has a good inn, a town-hall, a mechanics' institute, a workhouse, and silk and corn mills on the river Test. Over the Test is a brick bridge of five arches. The parish includes Charlcott, Freefolk Priors, and Cold Henley tithings. Acreage, 6367; population of the civil parish, 2110; of the ecclesiastical, 1916. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £270 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The Church of All Saints is an edifice of flint and stone in various styles of architecture, with a massive western tower and lofty spire; it contains numerous memorials, and has been restored. There are Wesleyan, Baptist, Primitive Methodist, and Congregational chapels.