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Medstead history
Ancient to Roman
Medstead has a history dating back up to 3,000 years. The earliest evidence of settlement in the area comes from two Tumuli burial grounds which are believed to date from 1000 BC. The name has been spelt in many different ways in the Middle Ages, including Maedstede, Maydstede and Midsted.
14th century to Georgian
Medstead Manor can be traced from the 14th century. In 1316, the Bishop of Winchester held the manor of Medstead and all adjacent land until 1346. Seven years later, Martin de Hertham and his wife, Isabel, passed control of lands, rents and taxes in Medstead to William de Overton. In 1749, Edward Rookes sold the. manor to Sir William Jolliffe for £1400 (equivalent to £223,790 in 2019)
Enclosure
Medstead suffered two private parliamentary enclosure acts: 1735 titled Stankham and Soldridge Commons; and 1798, a joint bill, but separate allotment, with the adjoining village at Bentworth. The primary protagonists were the lord of the manor of Old Alresford, Benjamin Hoadly, also bishop of Winchester and patron of the rectory of Medstead, which included Medstead. The second Medstead award of just over 231 acres was made in 1799.
Victorian to present day
Medstead’s railway station was first opened in August 1868. The 1881 census for the Alton Union Workhouse included three paupers born in Medstead. An underground bunker for the Royal Observer Corps was built in the village in 1963 and was continuously used until its closure in 1968. Medstead received broadband internet in 2003.
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