Titchfield, Hampshire

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Titchfield is a village in Locks Heath/Warsash/Whiteley, Hampshire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Titchfield within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Titchfield in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Titchfield.-- par. and vil., Hants, on river Titchfield, 2 miles W. of Fareham, 15,784 ac. and 1269 tidal water and foreshore, pop. 4571; P.O., T.O. Titchfield is an ancient place, was long a market town, and gives the title of marquis to the Duke of Portland. Titchfield House, now a ruin, occupies the site of an abbey of time of Henry III.; was built by Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, chancellor to Henry VIII.; afforded shelter to Charles I. on his escape from Hampton Court; and was the birthplace of the heroic wife of Lord William Russell. The river Titchfield (or Meon) flows 15½ miles SW. to the mouth of Southampton Water.

Titchfield in the Domesday Book

A village in Titchfield hundred, in the county of Hampshire.

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