Upper Clatford, Andover, Hampshire.

 

This is plan number 17 from a series of 60 which mapped the proposed railway from Southampton to Cheltenham in 1846.

 

Some of the features shown include the settlement of Upper Clatford itself, with individual dwellings, church and the New Inn, Andover Union Workhouse, part of the Redbridge and Andover Canal with an aqueduct over the River Anton, Bagsbury Farm, Rooksbury Mill, and various Turnpike Roads to and from Weyhill and Marlborough. The map covers part of the parish of Upper Clatford and part of the parish of Andover.

 

The plots of land adjacent to the proposed railway are numbered and also supplied with the print will be a copy of the relevant pages from a directory which accompanies the original plan. For each numbered plot this gives details of the property, its ownership, lessee and occupier. For example Plot 10 (Rooksbury Mill) is described as, "Flour Mill and Garden" owned by John Rawlinson, lessed to Charles Matcham, Robert Tasker & John Stadden and occupied by the latter two.

 

The plan thus provides details of the social history of the location, and who lived around Upper Clatford and Andover, over 160 years ago.

 

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