. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . 4Odiham Hundred itself was divided into three parts : the Middle Half, con-taining Dogmersfield, Greywell, part of Odiham, the tithing of NorthWarnborough, South Warnborough,15 and Winchfield ; the Lower Half, con-taining Elvetham, Bramshill in Eversley, Hartley Wintney, and Rotherwick;and Odiham Town, containing part of Odiham with the tithings of Hillside,Stapely, and The extent of the hundred is the same at the presentday as in 1841. Odiham was a royal hundred, but was granted at various times with themanor. John Fitz Hugh held it
. A history of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight . 4Odiham Hundred itself was divided into three parts : the Middle Half, con-taining Dogmersfield, Greywell, part of Odiham, the tithing of NorthWarnborough, South Warnborough,15 and Winchfield ; the Lower Half, con-taining Elvetham, Bramshill in Eversley, Hartley Wintney, and Rotherwick;and Odiham Town, containing part of Odiham with the tithings of Hillside,Stapely, and The extent of the hundred is the same at the presentday as in 1841. Odiham was a royal hundred, but was granted at various times with themanor. John Fitz Hugh held it by grant of the king in 1217,17 and in1299 it was assigned as dower to Margaret, queen of Edward It wasgranted in 1440 to John Basket for life, and to Margaret, consort of Henry VI,19in 1454, and in 1466 it formed part of the dower of Elizabeth, consort ofEdward It was leased for fifty years to Chideock Paulet in 1558, andwas granted in 1603 to John, Earl of From that time its descent isthe same as that of the manor of Pop. Returns, 1841. Wildmoor, a part of the parish of Sherfield-upon-Loddon, had apparently alwaysbeen in the hundred of Basingstoke. Baigent and Millard, Hist, of Basingstoke, 344 ; Huvd. R. (Rec. Com.),ii, 222. 15 Formerly in Bermondspit Hundred. 16 Pop. Returns, 1841, p. 278. 17 Rot. Lit. Claus. (Rec. Com.), i, 319. ,a Cal. Pat. 1292-1301, p. 452. 19 Pari. R. (Rec. Com.), v, 261^. *° Cal. Pat. 1461-7, p. 481. 21 Pat. 1 Jas. I, pt. xiii 67 A HISTORY OF HAMPSHIRE BENTWORTH Bentewurda or Bintewurda (xii cent.) ; Bynteworth(xiv cent.). Bentworth lies to the west of Alton, and has anacreage of 3,763 acres, of which about 280 acres arewoodland, and the remainder divided equally betweenarable and The soil is clay and loam, the subsoil chalk ; thechief crops are wheat, oats, and turnips. The villageis in the centre of the parish, and the large estate ofBentworth Hall stands on rising ground some way tothe south. Bentworth Lodge,
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