Old Hampshire Mapped
Cobbett's Hampshire
Transcription (55)Whitchurch
Test, River
Sherif Family
Gages Family
Baring Family
Abbotston
Old Alresford
Bolton, Duke of
Grange Park
Northington, Lord
Stratton Park
Russell Family
Micheldever Estate
Alfred the Great
Itchen, River
Easton
Martyr Worthy
Ogle Family
... the little sedgy river of Whitchurch! It has, in the short space of a hundred and thirty-one years, and, indeed, in the space of the last FORTY, caused greater changes as to property than had been caused by all other things put together in the long course of seven centuries, though, during that course there had been a sweeping, confiscating Protestant reformation. ... Let us look back to the place where I started, on this present rural ride [Reigate]. ... Coming on to OLD ALRESFORD (twenty miles from Farnham) SHERIFF, the son of a SHERIFF, who was a Commissary in the American war, has succeeded the GAGES. Two miles further on, at ABBOTSTON (down on the side of the Itchen) ALEXANDER BARING has succeeded the heirs and successors of the DUKE, OF BOLTON, the remains of whose noble mansion I once saw here. Not above a mile higher up, the same Baring has, at the GRANGE, with its noble mansion, park and estate, succeeded the heirs of LORD NORTHINGTON; and, at only about two miles further, Sir THOMAS BARING, at Stratton Park, has succeeded the RUSSELLS in the ownership of the estates of Stratton and Micheldover, which were once the property of ALFRED THE GREAT! Stepping back, and following my road, down by the side of the meadows of the beautiful river Itchen, and coming to Easton, I look across to MARTYR'S WORTHY, and there see (as I observed before) the OGLES succeeded by a general or a colonel, somebody; but who, or whence, I cannot learn.
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