The parish of Whiteparish lies in the southeastern corner of Wiltshire midway between Salisbury and Romsey and the parish boundary forms the county boundary with Hampshire on the east side. The village is a ribbon development along the four roads that meet by the church, further houses being distributed in the central area.
The centre of Whiteparish from the church gate (April 2020)
This web site explores the story of the old Hundred of Frustfield, which included the modern parishes of Whiteparish and Landford and a large section of the New Forest now in Redlynch parish. Discover within these pages an account of the history, geography and geology of this forest edge village, sandwiched between the royal forests of Melchet, Clarendon and the New Forest, and whose woodland was for a time within Melchet Forest.
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Frustfield shown over modern parish boundaries; the position of Whiteparish within Wiltshire
Geographically the northern boundary of the parish follows the scarp slope of the chalk downland ridge of Pepperbox Hill and Dean Hill, while the eastern and southern boundaries merge southwards into the younger landscape of the New Forest borders of Hampshire. The southern part of the parish is within the newly formed New Forest National Park, the old common to the south of the village showing a similar structure and layout to that of a typical New Forest village, with strips of grazing land alongside the roads running into the village from the common grazing land, now mostly open access woodland.
Geological map of Whiteparish. [Contains British Geological Survey materials © NERC 2018]
Land use varies with the geology, with grazing and arable on the chalk downland, arable on the sands and clays of the Reading (Lambeth) Beds, woodland and summer pasture on the heavy London Clay. Streams springing from between the chalk and clay feed the river Parkwater, which runs southward to meet the Blackwater on its way to join the River Test at the head of Southampton Water.
Select from the contents list to the left to browse the site, or use the "continue" button at the foot of each page to follow the story through selected pages. The web site contains all my working notes and as such is not all publicly available: for easier access top level pages use blue links for public access and magenta ones for pages only privately viewable.