. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . ndred, and in 1850 a separate ecclesiastical parish wasformed of Woolton Hill, originally in the parish of East Woodhay. In 1280 the hundred was declared to be the property of the Prior andconvent of St. Swithun and its value was given as 40J.,11 and in 1284 John dePontoise, Bishop of Winchester gave up all right in the hundred to the priorand 1 Except the tithing of Earlstone in the hundred of Kingsclere. 8 Pop. Ret. (1831). 3 Hants, i, 464J. 4 St. Mary Bourne with the tithings of Egbury, Benley, Week and Stoke, and possibly B
. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . ndred, and in 1850 a separate ecclesiastical parish wasformed of Woolton Hill, originally in the parish of East Woodhay. In 1280 the hundred was declared to be the property of the Prior andconvent of St. Swithun and its value was given as 40J.,11 and in 1284 John dePontoise, Bishop of Winchester gave up all right in the hundred to the priorand 1 Except the tithing of Earlstone in the hundred of Kingsclere. 8 Pop. Ret. (1831). 3 Hants, i, 464J. 4 St. Mary Bourne with the tithings of Egbury, Benley, Week and Stoke, and possibly Baughurst, wereincluded in the entry of Hurstbourne Priors. 6 Highclere or Burghclere or both. 6 Hants, i, 464A 7 Assize R. 33 Hen III printed in Stevens St. Maty Bourne, 298. 8 Pope Niek Tax. (Rec. Com.), 215*. 9 Hants, i, 490* ; Feud. Aids, ii, 330. 10 Ibid, ii, 309, 331, 34$. The insertion under Pastrow in 1316 is probably erroneous. Seeunder Pastrow Hundred. 11 Stevens, St. Mary Bourne, 301. 12 Cal. Chart. R. 1257-1300, p. 4 273 35 A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE ASHMANSWORTH iEscmeresworth (x cent.) ; Esmeresworda, Essher-mcresworth, Ashmeresworth (xiii cent.) ; Ashmans-worth (xviii cent.). The parish of Ashmansworth lies west of EastWoodhay ; the greater part of the land lies high andthere is very little woodland. A belt of trees formspart of the western boundary, while within the parishare Privet Copse and Buckhanger Copse in the north,Codley Copse north-west of the village, and SidleyWood in the south. The village itself consists mainly of a few farms;Manor Farm, Steels Farm, and Porters Farm arenorth of the church, while south of it are ChurchFarm and Lower Manor Farm. The school, whichis not far from Manor Farm, was built in 1872, andthe Methodist chapel, near by, in 1888. Several chalk-pits are scattered about the parish,which has a heavy soil with a subsoil of chalk. Thechief crops are wheat, oats and turnips. There are1,003 acres °f arable land, 282 acre
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