Colbury

Village in Hampshire, England

Human settlement in England

Ashurst and Colbury

District

New Forest

Shire county

Hampshire

Region

South East

CountryEnglandSovereign stateUnited KingdomPost townSOUTHAMPTONPostcode districtSO40Dialling code023^[1]Police Hampshire and Isle of Wight Fire Hampshire and Isle of Wight Ambulance South Central UK Parliament

New Forest East

List of places: UK; England; Hampshire

50°53′46″N 1°30′22″W / 50.896°N 1.506°W / 50.896; -1.506

Colbury is a small village in the civil parish of Ashurst and Colbury, in the New Forest district, in the county of Hampshire, England. The village lies along Deerleap Lane,^[2] near the modern village of Ashurst, in the New Forest National Park.

History

The name Colbury is derived from Middle English for "Cola's manor",^[3] and near Colbury is an estate called Langley which was held by "Cola the Hunter" in the Domesday Book of 1086.^[4] The manor of Colbury was given to the Abbot of Beaulieu by Robert de Punchardon sometime in the 13th century.^[2] A grant of free warren in the manor was made in 1359–60 to the Abbot and convent of Beaulieu.^[2] Successive abbots remained in possession of the manor until the dissolution of the abbey in April 1538, when it passed to the Crown.^[2] It was purchased in 1544 by John Mill and his son John. The elder John died in 1551 and the younger John was succeeded by his son Lewknor.^[2] He died in November 1587, and his son Lewknor died in the following month, leaving John his brother and heir.^[2] John was created a baronet in 1619, and the manor descended with the Mill Baronets until the death of the last baronet in 1835.^[2]

The site of the Colbury Manor House is about a mile to the northeast of Colbury village, close to the village of Eling.^[5] The house which is now there is modern, and no trace of ancient buildings survive.^[5]

Colbury was for centuries a tithing in Eling parish. Its population in 1870 was 341 people.^[6] The church in Colbury, called Christ Church, was built in 1870 by Benjamin Ferrey.^[7]

The civil parish of Colbury was one of the parishes created out of the ancient parish of Eling on 30 September 1894.^[2] Colbury parish was abolished on 1 October 1934 when 4722 acres were transferred to the parish of Denny Lodge and 750 acres were transferred to Eling.^[8] In 1931 the parish had a population of 1247.^[9] The modern parish of Ashurst and Colbury was created in 1985, but administers a much smaller area than the old Colbury parish.

The village has a hall built in 1928 as a memorial to the First World War.^[10]

References

^ "Telecoms numbering". ofcom.org.uk. 28 April 2010.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "Parishes: Eling". british-history.ac.uk.
^ Colbury, Old Hampshire Gazetteer
^ Anna Powell-Smith. "Langley - Domesday Book". domesdaymap.co.uk. Archived from the original on 30 July 2012.
^ ^a ^b "Hampshire Treasures". hants.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 9 June 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
^ John Marius Wilson, (1870-72) Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, page 24
^ "Hampshire Treasures". hants.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 9 June 2012. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
^ Relationships / unit history of COLBURY, www.visionofbritain.org.uk
^ "Population statistics Colbury CP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
^ O’Brien, Charles; Bailey, Bruce; Pevsner, Nikolaus; Lloyd, David W. (2018). The Buildings of England Hampshire: South. Yale University Press. pp. 227–228. ISBN 9780300225037.