Warblington

The Saxon settlement at Warblington, established in the 7th century, is recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086,[2] indicating a population of about 120.[3] The owner of the property at the time was Roger earl of Shrewsbury; after his death in 1094, it was inherited by his second son, Hugh. Records indicate that the owner in 1186 was William de Courci.[4]

In the 1400s, the people were removed and the area became a private deer park for Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick who then owned the manor.[3][5]

The village was the site of a medieval manor, now known as Warblington Castle built in 1515 and 1525 and mostly destroyed in 1644 in the English Civil War[6] leaving only a single gate tower, part of a wall, and a gateway.[7]

The Imperial Gazetteer of 1870-1872 described Warblington as having a population of 2,196 as of 1861 and mentioned that the "church is Saxon".[8]

The parish church of St Thomas à Becket is part of a joint parish with the church of St James, Emsworth.[9] The oldest part of the church is the small central tower, which is Saxon and was built in the 11th century. In 1967 Pevsner and Lloyd described St Thomas à Becket church as essentially late 12th century and notes the "undisturbed" setting. To the north of the church is the locality's most distinctive landmark: the tall octagonal turret of Warblington Castle. In October 1551, Mary of Guise the widow of James V of Scotland stayed a night in Warblington manor as a guest of Sir Richard Cotton.[10]

• Sir Peter James Blake KBE (1 October 1948 – 5 December 2001), Sailor, buried in Warblington cemetery
• John Brown (1820 – unknown), cricketer born in Warblington
• George Carter (1846 – unknown), cricketer
• James Norris, President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford 1843–72

• Barron, William (1985). The Castles of Hampshire & Isle of Wight. Paul Cave Publications. p. 50. ISBN 0-86146-048-0.
• Lloyd, David (1974). Buildings of Portsmouth and its Environs. Portsmouth: City of Portsmouth. p. 23. ISBN 978-0901559531.
• Page, William, ed. (1908). "Warblington". A History of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. Victoria County History. Vol. III. London: Archibald Constable & Co. pp. 134–139. ISBN 978-0712905930.
• Pevsner, Nikolaus; Lloyd, David (1967). Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. The Buildings of England. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. pp. 639–641. ISBN 0-14-071032-9.
• Timmins, G (2007). Warblington: a village history. Havant: Havant Museum.

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