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view of church exterior - churchyard, cemetery

Scene Description: the churchyard is all that remains from the old church that was demolished in 1829 -- Source caption: "The church was on this site from 1080 to 1830. It was moved two miles inland, closer to the village, when the salt industry declined (which was on the coast)."

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Image Source: N/Adigital photograph taken 25 April 2007 by Stuart Buchan [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/413880] [accessed 21 March 2012]

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INFORMATION

FontID: 17656HOR
Church/Chapel: Old Parish Church [demolished in 1829]
Church Location: [NB: coordinates are for the site of the old church at Hordle Cliff]
Country Name: England
Location: Hampshire, South East
Directions to Site: The site of the old church is at Hordle Cliff, about 3 km from present Hordle, off the B3058, 1 km S of Downton. 7-8 km WSW of Lymington
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Winchester
Historical Region: Hundred of Christchurch / Hundred of Rowditch [in Domesday]
Century and Period: 11th - 12th century, Norman
Church Notes: old church demolished 1829; re-built 1830; collapsed; re-built 1872 on new site
There is an entry for Hordle [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SZ2795/hordle/] [accessed 13 February 2020] but it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. White (1878) reports a modern font in this church. "erected in memory of the late Col. Clinton, of Ashley Clinton". The Victoria County History (Hampshire, vol. 5, 1912) notes: "Hordle Church was existing in the time of the Conqueror [...] The site of the old church is at Hordle Cliff, about 2 miles to the south of the present village [... The church] was taken down in 1829." There is no mention of a font in the VCH entry for this parish [NB: we have no information on the medieval church here].

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 50.730425, -1.621781
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 50° 43′ 49.69″ N, 1° 37′ 18.12″ W
UTM: 30U 597272 5620759

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2011-09-06 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.