FAWLEY
Falegia (xi cent.); Fallele (xii–xiv. cent.); Falle
(xiv cent.).
Fawley parish is a low tract of land 9,850 acres in
extent, stretching from the eastern limit of the New
Forest to Southampton Water. It is separated from
the true forest country by the table-land of Beaulieu
Heath, the spurs of which extend into Fawley.
Arable and pasture land, with fine woods of oak and
pine, characterize the coast districts, but a large tract
of uncultivated moorland stretches eastward from the
banks of the Dark Water and occupies the centre of
the parish. The larger portion of this moor bears
the name 'Badminston Common'; further west it is
called 'Hugh's Common.' The latter is the name
sometimes applied to the little inclosed plot of land,
right in the centre of the moor, which from time to
time has been sold in small allotments since about the
year 1858. Mud cottages were at first erected, but
these have been replaced by small red-brick houses.
The settlement forms a sharp contrast to the surrounding country. Its usual name is 'Blackfields.' On
the outskirts of the moor are several large farm-houses,
which indeed characterize the whole district. In
some cases a few cottages have sprung up in the
neighbourhood of these farms, but except in the cases
of Fawley and Langley there is nothing which can
claim to be called a village. There are 2,544½ acres
of arable land in the parish, 1,779¾ of permanent
grass, and 1,211 acres covered by woods and plantations. (fn. 1) The soil is sandy, and the chief crops are oats
and barley. The district is sparsely populated, and
the means of communication bad, the roads being in
many cases only tracks across the fields, while the
nearest railway station is Beaulieu Road in the New
Forest. The best mode of access is the road which
runs down the parish from Hythe to Fawley, and on
to Hillhead. A motor-bus service, opened by the
London and South-Western Railway Company on
13 August, 1906, and running from Totton to Fawley,
promises to open up the country by making it more
accessible to visitors. The combination of moor,
wood, and cornfield, with the glimpses of the sea and
the hills of the Isle of Wight in the near distance,
makes the country peculiarly attractive. The Cadland
estate, which stretches down the coast of Southampton
Water for nearly eight miles, is the residence of
Mr. Drummond, who owns nearly all the land in the
parish. The house was built in 1773, but was greatly
enlarged by Mr. A. R. Drummond in 1836. Forest
Lodge, the residence of Mr. Baring, is chiefly notable
for its beautiful surroundings. It can also boast the
possession of a Chinese pagoda and bridge in the
grounds, and an observatory from which a fine view
over Southampton Water is obtained. Eaglehurst,
the residence of Mr. Huth, is also prettily situated,
and the house itself is somewhat of a curiosity, part
of it having been built, according to local report, in
imitation of the tent which its first owner had used
while on active service. The rectory house is of
several dates, and stands in a charming garden, the
mildness of the climate being witnessed to by the
camellia-bushes which flourish in the open air.
The nucleus of the parish is the little village of
Fawley. A quarter of a mile to the west of the
village stands the parish school. Here the road forks,
that on the right hand leading to the inn, the post
office, the parish hall, and the few shops which constitute the village. The left-hand road leads past the
high wall of the rectory garden to the church, which
overlooks Southampton Water. Of many little paths
leading down to the shore, one lane leads to Ashlett,
where a natural creek has led to the establishment of
yacht stores on the site of the old Fawley Mill. Ships
of 100, or even 150 tons can be brought up here at
high tide, and are unloaded at 'Victoria Quay.' (fn. 2) There
is a tradition that lepers at one time lived in Fawley
village, and the fact that an old farm building, pulled
down some fifty years ago, and now the site of a
hayrick, was called 'Lazarus' is given as a corroboration of the tradition; but it is one not to be easily
credited, as leper-houses as a rule were not founded
in villages. A mile and a half south of the village,
the 'Floating island' used to be an object of great
interest, but the drainage of the surrounding bog has
now robbed it of its floating capacities.
At Fawley village the road turns sharply southward, and runs parallel with Southampton Water,
past Ower Farm, until it reaches Hillhead, the Fawley
beach. Here a narrow strip of shingle connects the
mainland with Calshot Castle, a small fort built by
Henry VIII with stones from the ruins of Beaulieu
Abbey. The arms of Queen Elizabeth, and the
letters 'E.R.' on a waterspout, witness to later work
on the castle. The unstable character of the shingle
on which it stands causes a displacement of as much
as a foot at spring tides. From the commanding
position of Calshot at the entrance to Southampton
Water, the view both up that harbour and down
Spithead is a particularly fine one.
In sharp contrast to the rest of the parish is the
detached portion which contains the little fishing
village of Hythe. From its close connexion with
Southampton by an hourly steamboat service, Hythe
is the natural gate to Fawley. The club-house of the
Hythe Yacht Club stands at the end of the pier.
The manor courts of Cadlands were held at the
'Anchor in Hope' in this village until they lapsed
two years ago. There were formerly stocks in the
village.
The common lands of Fawley were inclosed in 1814. (fn. 3)
MANORS
In Domesday Book FAWLEY is given
among those lands which were held by
the bishop of Winchester for the support
of the monks of Winchester. (fn. 4) In 1284, when various
agreements were concluded between the bishop and
the monks, the latter gave up all their rights in Fawley
to the bishop, (fn. 5) and the king ratified the agreement. (fn. 6)
There seems to have been a close connexion between
Fawley Manor and the manor of Bitterne, which also
belonged to the bishops of Winchester. The two
are generally spoken of as 'Bitterne with Fawley.' (fn. 7)
It is probable that the bishop's tenant at Fawley did
suit of court at Bitterne. In 1546 John Skullard
was tenant at Fawley Manor, (fn. 8) which remained in the
hands of that family until 1681. (fn. 9) In 1705 the manor
was conveyed to Edward Peachey, (fn. 10) and a family
settlement concerning Fawley Manor was made by
William and Erlysman Peachy in 1765. (fn. 11) In 1801
the manor was conveyed by John and Philip Lockton,
and spinsters Catherine, Elizabeth, Harriet, and Sophia
Lockton, to Mr. Robert Drummond of Cadlands. (fn. 12)
Fawley thus became annexed to the neighbouring
manor of Cadlands (q.v.), and separate courts for
Fawley ceased to be held. Mr. Drummond owns by
far the greater part of the land, but there are a few
copyholders who still pay in their quit-rents to
Bitterne Manor. (fn. 13) Except for this, the rights of the
bishops of Winchester over Fawley seem to have
entirely lapsed. There is, however, one rather
curious trace of them. The tradition runs that King
John and the bishop of Winchester were once riding
together in the New Forest when the king laughingly
told the bishop that he might have 'as much land as
he could crawl round.' The bishop, who was stout,
had a machine made wherewith to support himself,
and so managed to 'crawl' round a considerable piece.
This was the Bishop's Ditch or Purlieu, near the
present Beaulieu Road station. When the London
and South-Western Railway Company built their line
over it, all the copyholders in Fawley were compensated, and certain rights of common over the
dyke still remain to them. (fn. 14)
In the thirteenth century Roger de Scures was lord
of the manor of CADLANDS, which was attached to
the lordship of the Isle of Wight. (fn. 15) In 1241 Eva de
Clinton, his daughter and heiress, granted the manor
to Isaac abbot of Titchfield, to be held by him in
frankalmoign of herself and her heirs, (fn. 16) Reginald
d'Albemarle being lord of the Isle of Wight at the
time. (fn. 17) During the time that Isabella de Fortibus,
countess of Devon and Albemarle, was lady of the
island (1256–1292–3) she sold the over-lordship of
the manor to Edward I. (fn. 18) The manor remained in
the hands of Titchfield Abbey until the dissolution
of the monasteries. (fn. 19) In 1537 John Salisbury,
suffragan bishop of Thetford and commendatory and
abbot of Titchfield Monastery, surrendered the possessions of the abbey, including the manor of Cadlands, to Henry VIII, (fn. 20) who granted it in December
of the same year to Thomas Wriothesley, first earl of
Southampton. (fn. 21) In 1546 Wriothesley gave the manor
to Thomas Pace, who held it jointly with his wife
Elizabeth until his death in 1560. (fn. 22) Alice, his
daughter and heir, married George Powlett, (fn. 23) and
their son, William Powlett, sold Cadlands in 1608 to
Sir Walter Longe of Draycot Cerne, Wiltshire. (fn. 24) The
Longes held it until 1626 or
1627, when Sir Walter Longe
sold it to Nicholas Pescod. (fn. 25)
In 1641 Pescod granted a
ninety-nine years' lease of the
manor lands to Peter Cardonell, a Norman merchant
from Caen, (fn. 26) and also married
his daughter and heir Mary to
Adam Cardonell, probably a
son of Peter. In the hands
of these Cardonells the manor
fell into two moieties, one inherited, the other originated
by sale. Mary the granddaughter of Adam and
Mary Cardonell—and by her brother's death sole
heir of her father, Adam Cardonell the younger—
married William, Lord Talbot, baron of Hensol, son
of Charles Talbot, the chancellor of George II. (fn. 27)
In 1741 a moiety of Cadland Manor was settled
upon her and Lord Talbot and their children. (fn. 28) In
1772, however (ten years before Lord Talbot's death),
this moiety was in the hands of Mary and Catherine,
holding in their own right as the wives respectively
of Joseph Small and Joseph
Gibbs. (fn. 29) They quitclaimed
to the Hon. Robert Drummond, a younger son of
William Drummond, fourth
Viscount Strathallan. His descendant Mr. A. C. Drummond is the present lord of
the manor, and resides at
Cadlands.
Longe of Draycott Cerne.Sable crusilly and a lion argent.
Drummond. Or three bars wavy gules.
The other moiety apparently carried no manorial
rights with it, but consisted
simply of the Rollstone Farm estate, which Adam
de Cardonell and Mary his wife (daughter of Nicholas
Pescod) conveyed to William Stanley of Paultons in
1657. (fn. 30) In 1693 the Stanleys were in possession of
'a moiety of the manor of Cadlands,' (fn. 31) and there are
subsequent references to this moiety in the eighteenth century. (fn. 32) Mr. Cyril Hans Sloane Stanley
of Paultons Park, Romsey, is owner of Rollstone
Farm at the present day.
The first trace of HOLBURY Manor is in 1312,
when Roger Bernerall and Gilbert de Shupton
obtained licence of the king to 'grant land in Holebury
to the abbey of King's Beaulieu.' (fn. 33) Holbury remained
in the hands of the abbots of Beaulieu until the
dissolution of that monastery in 1538. (fn. 34) Four years
later Henry VIII granted it
to Robert Whyte in exchange
for a manor and lands in
Middlesex. (fn. 35) Holbury was
to be held as one-twentieth
of a knight's fee for a rent
of 14s. 6½d. There is no
mention of Whyte heirs in
the grant, and some time
between this date and 1560
the manor fell into the hands
of Thomas Pace. (fn. 36) From the
death of Thomas Pace onwards,
Holbury Manor followed the
same descent as Cadlands (q.v.),
being last spoken of as a
whole manor when Nicholas Pescod granted a lease
of the site to Adam de Cardonell. (fn. 37) As in the case
of Cadlands, one moiety passed to Lady Mary
Talbot, (fn. 38) and thence in 1772 to the Hon. Robert
Drummond. (fn. 39) Whatever lands were signified in the
conveyance of this moiety would be included in the
Cadlands estate. The other moiety was in the possession of William Stanley of Paultons in 1693, (fn. 40) and
his descendant, Mr. Cyril Hans Sloane Stanley, is the
present owner of Holbury Farm.
Beaulieu Abbey. Gules a crozier enfiled with a royal crown or and a border sable billetty or.
Domesday Book records two tenements in LANGLEY held by the king's thegns; of these the smaller
was held by Cola the huntsman, (fn. 41) the larger by Hugh
de St. Quintin. (fn. 42) In 1372 John Baron of South
Langley (fn. 43) and Julia his wife were seised of a messuage
and land in South Langley. (fn. 44) Thence the tenement
passed indirectly to Richard
Goolde and his wife Joan in
1413. (fn. 45) This Joan afterwards
became the wife of William Soper, and on being left
for the second time a widow
conveyed her holding to John
Ludlowe in 1482. (fn. 46) In 1500
the right of the Ludlowes to
hold the manor (here so called
for the first time) was fiercely
disputed in the Court of Chancery by one William Fletcher. (fn. 47)
The Ludlowes, however, evidently made good their claim, for in 1609 Sir
Edward Ludlowe sold the manor of Langley to Sir
Walter Longe. This united the manor of Langley
to the manors of Cadlands and Holbury, all three
following the same descent henceforward. Langley,
like the other two, fell into two moieties in the
seventeenth century. Of these, one went to the
Drummonds in 1772, (fn. 48) and coalesced with Cadlands.
The other, as in the case of Holbury, is first
mentioned in 1693, among the possessions of William
Stanley of Paultons. (fn. 49) This latter moiety is represented by the ownership of Langley Farm by
Mr. Cyril Hans Sloane Stanley at the present day.
Ludlowe. Argent a cheveron between three bears' heads razed sable.
HARDLEY
HARDLEY was assessed in Domesday at a hide and
3 virgates attached to the New Forest. (fn. 50) After this
there is no further trace of it until the fourteenth
century, when William Chippe held lands there. (fn. 51)
In the sixteenth century the estate assumed the title
of a manor in the hands of William Buckett, who
held it from at least 1531 to 1579. (fn. 52) After this it
changed hands rapidly (fn. 53) until finally conveyed to
Richard Pittis, attorney of the King's Bench in
1628. (fn. 54) There is no further trace of Hardley as a
separate manor, but a moiety of lands there is mentioned among the possessions of the Stanleys of Paultons in 1693, (fn. 55) 1745, (fn. 56) and 1781. (fn. 57) The land now
forms part of the property of Mr. Drummond of
Cadlands. During the tenure by one Thomas Tracie
in the sixteenth century of a lease of Hardley Farm
from William Buckett, an amusing incident occurred. (fn. 58)
Peter Kembridge and a man named Oglander wishing
to rob Tracie of some of his possessions, arrested him,
Oglander impersonating the sheriff's bailiff. Carried
by force to an alehouse at Dibden, Tracie, who
describes himself as 'a poor plain simple creature,'
was compelled 'to seal and deliver certain writings,
but to what effect he himself knoweth not.' Tracie's
wife meanwhile followed her husband, and 'made
moan' for him outside the chamber. On gaining his
freedom, Tracie appealed to the Court of Chancery.
Domesday records a manor of STANSWOOD in
Fawley, reduced by the encroachments of the New
Forest from two hides to one. It was then worth
£7, and was included in the sources of the king's ferm
which he had from the Isle of Wight. (fn. 59) There is no
subsequent trace of any separate manor of Stanswood,
which probably at an early date became merged in
one of the neighbouring manors of Cadlands, Holbury,
or Langley. Appurtenances in Stanswood belonging
to Cadlands manor are mentioned in the inquisition
on Thomas Pace's death, taken in 1560, (fn. 60) and in
several subsequent extents of Cadlands before it fell
into two moieties. (fn. 61) Land in Stanswood belonging
to the Stanleys of Paultons is also mentioned in those
documents of 1693, (fn. 62) 1745, (fn. 63) and 1781, (fn. 64) which deal
with their possession of the moieties of the three
manors. The land now forms part of Mr. A. C.
Drummond's estate. A mill in Stanswood is men
tioned in Domesday, and is possibly referred to in
some of the documents. (fn. 65) A mill stood in this
locality until comparatively recently.
Domesday Book gives STONE in Fawley among
the lands of the king's thegns, and mentions that its
value had sunk since the time of Edward the Confessor
from 60s. to 5s. (fn. 66) The tenement is not called a
manor until the sixteenth century. In the fourteenth
century William Chippe, and his son Robert Chippe
after him, were holders of a messuage and land in
Stone. (fn. 67) In 1346 one-twelfth part of a knight's fee
in Stone, formerly in the tenure of Aymer de
Valence, was held by Thomas West, (fn. 68) who was
evidently one of the same family which early in the
fourteenth century was united to the De La Warrs; (fn. 69)
for in 1547 Thomas West,
Lord De La Warr, was holding the manor of Stone. (fn. 70) In
1608 Thomas Fashion died
seised of this manor, bequeathing it by will to West Fashion
his son. (fn. 71) West Fashion in
1639, and his son Thomas the
following year, died seised of
the manor of Stone; the
heir of Thomas was another
Thomas, his son. (fn. 72) The
family of Fashion was of
Guernsey; (fn. 73) when they parted with Stone is not
clear, the next trace of that manor being in 1704,
when William Bulkley conveyed it to Samuel Mason. (fn. 74)
Some time between this date and 1740 Stone came
into the hands of the Mitfords of Exbury (probably
about 1718 when William Mitford purchased Exbury
of Henry Compton). In 1740, 1765, and 1774
family settlements concerning Stone were made by
the Reveleys and Mitfords. (fn. 75) The estate now forms
part of the property of Mr. Drummond of Cadlands.
West. Argent a fesse dancetty sable.
CHURCHES
The church of ALL SAINTS,
FAWLEY, has a chancel 30 ft. 6 in.
by 15 ft. 4 in., with north and south
chapels, nave of the same width, 59 ft. 3 in. long,
with north and south aisles 11 ft. 8 in. wide, southeast tower, and west porch.
As it stands to-day, without taking into account
the modern details, the church seems to belong to
two main periods, c. 1170–1210, and 1300–1340.
But it is evident that its present plan, which is,
roughly speaking, a rectangle 100 ft. long by 50 ft.
wide, has only been reached by a long series of developments, some of which at least may be conjectured
from existing evidence. The north wall of the tower,
2 ft. 3 in. thick, as against 3 ft. in the other three
tower walls, is clearly the south wall of a nave older
than the tower, and probably of the same date as the
thin east (2 ft. 1 in.) and north walls of the nave
(2 ft. 3 in.). The equality of width between nave
and chancel suggests that the latter has been built
round an older and narrower chancel, and above the
east face of the chancel arch are the marks of a roof
belonging to a narrower building. The evidences
therefore of a small aisleless church, consisting of
chancel about 11 ft. wide, and nave 15 ft. 4 in. wide,
are demonstrable, but its east and west dimensions
can only be suggested from the analogy of other
examples: 13 ft. for the chancel and 35–40 ft. for the
nave are probably near the mark.
The chancel built round the early chancel at some
date in the twelfth century difficult to fix was probably at first aisleless, a length of string-course on the
north wall, west of the present arcade, pointing to the
fact that the wall is older than the arcade. It was
also probably some 8 ft. shorter than the present
chancel. About 1170–80 a north aisle to the chancel was built, probably narrower than the present
aisle and of equal length with the chancel, and some
thirty years later a south aisle of like dimensions was
added.
The tower at the south-east of the nave must have
been begun about the same time as the north aisle of
the chancel, and the lengthening of the nave and
addition to it of north and south aisles was probably
determined on, but, from the evidence of the details,
carried on very slowly. The two eastern bays of the
north arcade have been altered, if not rebuilt, in the
fourteenth century; and this, together with some
evidence of the former existence of an east wall to the
north aisle, suggests that some transeptal arrangement
balancing the tower may have been originally intended. Unless the west arch of the tower has been
tampered with, the width of the south aisle of the
nave must always have been as now; and since the
north aisle is of exactly the same width, it also may
preserve its original plan. The first part of the fourteenth-century enlargements probably began with a
lengthening, c. 1300, of the chancel, and some thirty
years later the aisles were similarly lengthened and also
widened, the north aisle to the width of that of the
nave, and the south aisle to the width of the tower.
The work in the nave, beyond the alterations to the
south arcade already noted, involved no changes in the
plan. The chief repairs to the building of modern
date are those of 1840 and 1866.
The chancel has an east window of three trefoiled
lights with intersecting mullions, and a plain circle in
the head, an interesting piece of early tracery, c. 1300.
Beneath its sill on the outside is a small round-headed
recess with a pedimented seventeenth-century slab
with an inscription to Elizabeth Light, the back of
the recess being also part of a seventeenth-century
tombstone. The north arcade of the chancel is of
two bays with pointed arches of a single order, round
shafts, and square capitals scalloped;. the bases are
moulded and have angle-spurs; all details being much
worked over in cement. The south arcade is evidently
of a later date, though of the same general design, and
has plain leaf-work on the bells of the capitals. The
north chapel has a three-light east window with net
tracery, c. 1330, the mullions being modern, and in
the north wall two square-headed three-light windows, much repaired. On the north of the east
window is a plain image-bracket, in the south wall a
trefoiled fourteenth-century piscina.
In the south wall of the chancel is a modernized
trefoiled piscina and a square locker, the back of
which has been cut through and now opens to the
south chapel, the east end of which is used as a vestry.
It has east and south windows corresponding to those
in the north chapel, and at the south-west a small
pointed doorway of late twelfth-century date with a
continuous edge-roll on its outer face. At the west
is a modern arch to the tower, and at the south-east
an arched piscina recess with a small trefoiled recess,
also with a drain, below it. North of the east window is an image bracket, on which rests a stone with
roughly-cut fourteenth-century tracery on it. In the
east window are the arms of Henry VIII in a garter,
and several loose pieces of fifteenth-century glass are
kept here, one being part of a crucifixion, and another
having a figure of St. Nicholas. The chancel arch is
semicircular, of one square order, with a moulded
and chamfered abacus of late twelfth-century detail.
The wall in which it is set is only 2 ft. 1 in. thick, and
it probably succeeds an early and narrower arch.
The nave arcades are of plain character, with
pointed arches of one order, circular columns, and
square capitals with the angles cut back. The general
details are of thirteenth-century style, except in the
two east bays of the north arcade, where the detail of
capitals and bases looks like fourteenth-century work.
The tower at the south-east of the nave is of late
twelfth-century date, with a plain round-headed light
in the south wall of its ground story, and modern
round-headed arches on the north and west. The
north-west pier also has been rebuilt, but the responds
of the arches are old, with scalloped capitals and
moulded bases with spurs. The capital of the south
respond of the west arch has curious foliate detail,
resembling that at South Hayling, but of earlier type.
On the south and east walls is a modern wall arcade,
with memorial inscriptions of the Drummond family.
The upper part of the tower is a fifteenth-century
addition or rebuilding, and has a plain parapet and
two square-headed lights on each face of the upper
stage. In the second stage are trefoiled windows on
the north and east, and on the south side is a rainwater head dated 1743.
The north aisle of the nave has four trefoiled fourteenth-century lights in its north wall, partly modernized, and the west window, of two trefoiled lights, is
modern. The south aisle has similar windows, but
in place of the second from the east is a plain fourteenth-century doorway.
At the west end of the nave is a gallery lighted by
a modern three-light window, and beneath it a west
door of good twelfth-century style, and looking earlier
than the other twelfth-century work. The semicircular arch has a plain inner order, and an outer
order ornamented with a roll and zigzag, springing
from nook-shafts with scalloped capitals. Its south
jamb and part of the arch are in large stones of later
date than the rest, perhaps fifteenth-century work, and
the arch has doubtless been moved from its original
position, which may have been in the south wall of
the nave. Over it is a porch of 1844 in twelfthcentury style.
The roofs of the church are ceiled, except in the
north chapel, and at the east end of the south chapel
is a fourteenth-century truss. The nave walls have a
line of stone corbels on both sides at plate level, and
corbels which carried part of the rood-loft remain in
the east angles of the nave.
The font, at the west end of the south aisle, is
modern, octagonal with panelled sides.
The pulpit is octagonal, the upper part of good
early seventeenth-century work, with arched panels and
a projecting book-board carried on scrolled brackets;
no other wood fittings are old, and the only monument of interest is a brass plate on the south side
of the chancel to Henry Audley, 1606, a copy of
whose will is kept among the church papers.
There are four bells, the treble by Joshua Kipling,
1737; the second by Richard Flory of Salisbury,
1677; the third, of 1603, inscribed 'Give God the
glory,' R.B.; and the tenor by Warner, 1867.
The plate includes an interesting pre-Reformation
paten, 55/8 in. diameter, parcel gilt, with a vernicle in
a six-lobed depression. Its date is c. 1520. There
is also an Elizabethan communion cup of 1562, a
flagon of 1834, a standing paten of 1844, two silvertopped glass cruets, and an old pewter plate.
The first book of the registers runs from 1677 to
1759, but there are two loose pages with entries of
marriages 1674–7, and burials 1673–7. The second
book is the marriage register 1754–92, and the third
contains baptisms and burials 1759–98. The fourth
continues the baptisms and burials, and the fifth the
marriages, to 1813 and 1812 respectively. There are
two pages of churchwardens' accounts for 1681, and
consecutive accounts for 1725–1818.
The church of ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST,
HYTHE, erected in 1874, is of red brick, with Bath
stone dressings, in thirteenth-century style. The
register dates from 1823.
ADVOWSONS
A chapel in Fawley is mentioned
in Domesday Book. (fn. 76) The living
is a rectory, and has always been
in the gift of the bishop of Winchester. There is a
chapel of ease at Langley licensed for divine service.
Exbury was a chapelry of Fawley until 1868. The
two formed one of the 'peculiar benefices' of the
bishop of Winchester. (fn. 77) Hythe was separated from
Fawley in 1841, (fn. 78) and formed into an ecclesiastical
parish. The living is a titular vicarage in the gift of
the rector of Fawley.
Fawley contains a Primitive Methodist chapel and
a Wesleyan chapel, and there is a Baptist chapel at
Blackfields, and a Congregational chapel at Hythe.
CHARITY
Mary Trattle by will, proved 1868,
bequeathed a legacy and a share of residuary estate, now represented by £1,068
9s. 2d. consols (with the official trustees) upon trust
that the income should be applied, one-half in the
distribution of beef to the poor at Christmas, and the
other half in providing them with blankets or articles
of clothing.
The annual dividends, amounting to £26 14s., are
duly applied.