Old Hampshire Mapped
Leland's Hampshire 1635-43
Transcription (24)Bitterne
Bitterne Manor
Woodmill
Itchen, River
salmon
And on the right hand on the est ripe lyith almost agayn it Bythern, sumtyme a castelle longging to the bisshopes of Winchester, whereof yet sum ruines remayne: now a ferme longging to the Bisshop of Winchester.
Minns:- At Bitterne the Bishops of Winchester had an Episcopal Palace with a square embattled tower. Here, as Lords of the Manor, they held their Courts, and in 1264 the Archbishop of Canterbury, Kilwardby, came on a visitation and kept Christmas. Part of the walls of the mediaeval palace are built into the present Bitterne Manor House.
Wood Mille lyith scant a mile upward, as at the hedde of the creeke: and hither resortith Alresford Ryver augmentid with dyvers brokes.
At Wood Mylle is good taking of salmons.
Minns:- A mill probably existed here from Saxon times. At South Stoneham House (Lord Swaythling's) close by may be seen the pool where Itchen salmon are still caught.
The toun of Hampton is not half a mile above the mouth of this creke.
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