Lower Clatford, Hampshire.

 

This is plan number 16 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 Lower Clatford itself with individual dwellings and Mill. The church of Upper Clatford is shown at the right edge of the map adjacent to Norman Court Farm. The Redbridge and Andover Canal passes across the map and through Lower Clatford and adjacent to the River Anton on which are Paper Mills. Parts of the Parishes of both Upper and Lower Clatford are shown along with an area described as "otherwise Goodworth Clatford". The Parish of Wherwell is at the left hand edge of the map. Parish boundaries are marked as are many field divisions.

 

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 102 is described as, "Flour Mill, House, Barn, Road and Outbuildings" owned by The Baroness de Tuyll and her Trustees and occupied by Thomas Dowling.

 

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

 

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