Old Hampshire Mapped
Leland's Hampshire 1635-43
Transcription (38)Wickham to Bishops Waltham
Bishops Waltham
Winchester, Bishop of
Bishops Waltham Palace
Hamble, River
From Wikham to Waltham a praty town 3. miles by enclosid ground, good pasture, wodde and corne.
Here the Bisshop of Winchester hath a right ample and goodly maner place motid aboute and a praty brooke renning hard by it.
This maner place hath beene of many bisshops building.
Minns:- The Manor of Bishop's Waltham has belonged to successive bishops of Winchester from time immemorial, Semper fuit de Episcopalii, is the memorandum concerning it in the Domesday Book.
Most part of the 3. partes of the base court was buildid of brike and timbre of late dayes by Bisshop Langton,
Minns:- Bishop of Winchester, 1493-1501.
The residew of the inner [part] of the house is al of stone.
The hedde of this brooke for the most parte risith within a mile of the town of sundry springes in the way to Winchestre. This brooke goith toward Budley and Hamelrise Creke.
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