Stony Bridge

Stony Bridge, Fareham
bridge


parish:
county:
coords:
Fishers Hill
Titchfield
Fareham
Hampshire
SU543066
Near the abbey
refce: HANTSLOC.t
: 2000: Bridges in Hampshire of Historic Interest: Hampshire CC
commentary: Two low spans of stonework, built 1625.
old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXXIV.8
descriptive text
 - Alre, River
Period - 18th century, early
refce: Defoe 1724
From Portsmouth west, the country lyes low and flat, and is full of creeks and inlets of the sea and rivers, all the way to Southampton, so that we ferry over three times in about eighteen miles; besides going over one bridge, namely, at Tichfield: ... from thence [Gosport] we ride to Tichfield, as above, where we pass the river Alre, ...
Defoe has muddled Rivers Alre and Meon
old map
 Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- bridge
refce: Morden 1695
(MRD2SU50.jpg)
old map
 Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- bridge - Titchfeild Hundred - Hantshire
refce: Speed 1611
(SPD1SU50.jpg)
old map
 Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- bridge
refce: Norden 1607
(NRD1SU50.jpg)
old map
 Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- bridge - Southamtoniae
refce: Saxton 1575
(SAX1SU50.jpg)
description
 The place is described in text Leland 1535-43
refce: Leland 1535-43
... Tichefeld Water.
... Thens [from Wikeham] [a 3. or 4. miles] to a wood bridge by Mr. Wriothesleys [house], ...
notes
 Kettelbridge
Stony Bridge
Anjou Bridge
refce: Watts, George (ed): 1982 (3rd impression): Titchfield, a History: Titchfield Historical Society
probably dates from 13th or 14th century; new section made by a citizen of Southampton, Thomas Harpeter, 1372; was wooden when Leland crossed in 1542; used to have a stone dated 1625
Associated with
place - Meon, River- river
Associated with
date 1625
   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001