February 2026 Cowesfield Talk the slides used
for the Whiteparish History and Environmental Society talk given on 19th February 2026, starting a new introductory page Broxmore House and Park Introduction...
January 2026 Revising and enhancing Ash Hill House and Common, Commons
October 2025 New Forest Fungi
September 2025 Churchyard Natural History
August 2025 Whiteparish brickworks partly uploaded, images and maps not yet complete, working on Welsteads
July 2025 The Street house analysis, updating Whiteparish Brickworks on Common Road between the modern surgery and telephone exchange
June 2025 Alderstone Green the "village" green for Alderstone Manor at the heart of Whiteparish, updating Post Office and Village Stores (changes not yet uploaded)
May 2025 Updated Whiteparish Garage , Whiteparish Grange (Common Farm), Whelpley Farm and Tithe map
April 2025 writing up notes on Sussex churches. Also started pages on Hampshire churches and Wiltshire churches
March 2025 VCH notes
February 2025 Cowesfield sale 1940 breaking up the Cowesfield estate of the manors of Cowesfield Esturmy and Cowesfield Louveras, Hearth Tax 1662, significant updates to Vicars and Rectors
January 2025 Poundside Cottage uploaded, The Pound, Jewsons and Barter's Farm updated. Updates to Cowesfield Brickworks and Cowesfield Nursery
November 2024 Origin of the name Whiteparish
September 2024 Working onCowesfield Green Farm/Cowesfield Manor, adding a set of 14 photographs from the web, updating Romsey Road
August 2024 Alderstone Farm now uploaded and working on the Nunn family of 1842, updating Brickworth Road and the House name index with further properties covered on that page. Also working on Manors and the pages for each of the eight manors, updating Manors and Commons, Manors - introduction.
July 2024 Much of my time has been taken up recently preparing a talk on the memorials inside All Saints Church in Whiteparish, presented on 14th July 2024 in the church. All the material presented is now available here: Church memorials talk.
May 2024:working on Abbotstone/Titchborne manor.
April 2024 Meadow Court Geology, Cowesfield Chapel, also referred to as Cowesfield Louveras Chapel, Cowesfield Spilman Chapel and Cowesfield Esturmy Chapel, plus an introductory page to Alderstone Manor and its church, now Whiteparish church. Lords of the manor from 1725 to 1947 were the Bristow family
Pages covering Romsey topics are now in a new website area here: Romsey
Blue links in this contents list are publicly available but purple ones are restricted to the author only
A brief history of Whiteparish and Cowesfield
INDEX
Index to all pages
Index to house names
Index to people
Index to Church Memorials
Balsdean (experimental link)
Woodingdean (experimental link)
Romsey (experimental link)
Private contents list
Map index
Recently uploaded pages
Quick Links
Private Links
Local Weather Forecast
Welcome to Whiteparish
Introduction
Historical Overview
Whiteparish through the Ages
Historical periods
Geology
Scenery
Climate and Weather
Whiteparish growth
Frustfield Hundred
Whiteparish Tithings
Frustfield Manors and Commons
Whiteparish Parish
Royal Forests
Roads
Settlements
Farms
Manors
Country Houses
Other properties
Manors and Commons
Village Greens
Village Ponds
Village People
People in 1842
Old field systems round the parish
Churches and Chapels
Shops and businesses
Schools
Dean Hill Pill Boxes
The village today
Neighbouring parishes and estates
Tithe Map (1842) [Open in new tab]
Original of 1842 Tithe Map
Matcham Hundred of Frustfield (1844) Nov-Dec 2018 pages i-iv and 81-104 available
Whiteparish Marriage Registers 1560 to 1837
Whiteparish Maps
Historical Sources
References ... [Open in new tab]
Extreme weather records
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Recent significant changes
18.4.2018 Added lidar analysis
6.11.2018 Modified links to Saxon Charters, Domesday Book, added Historical Sources
29.9.2019 Coloured private links purple
18.10.2019 Moved neighbouring parishes and historical periods to separate pages
4.12.2019 charset=iso-8859-1 replaced by utf-8 and font size and colour by css
5.12.2019 Revised html code: now validates without error