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Eastleigh is a town in Hampshire, England, between Southampton and Winchester. It is the largest town and the administrative seat of the Borough of Eastleigh, with a population of 24,011 at the 2011 census.
The town lies on the River Itchen, one of England's premier chalk streams for fly fishing, and a designated site of Special Scientific Interest.[2][3] The area was originally villages until the 19th century, when Eastleigh was developed as a railway town by the London and South Western Railway.
The modern town of Eastleigh lies on the old Roman road, built in A.D.79 between Winchester (Venta Belgarum) and Bitterne (Clausentum).[4][5][6] Roman remains discovered in the Eastleigh area, including a Roman lead coffin excavated in 1908,[7] indicate that a settlement probably existed here in Roman times.[4][8][9]
A Saxon village called 'East Leah' has been recorded to have existed since 932 AD.[10] ('Leah' is an ancient Anglo-Saxon word meaning 'a clearing in a forest').[10] There is additional evidence of this settlement in a survey from the time which details land in North Stoneham being granted by King Æthelstan to his military aid, Alfred in 932 AD.[4][8][11] The prefix 'Est' or 'East' is thought to refer to its location relative to the established settlement of Baddesley.[4]
The Domesday Book of 1086 gives a more detailed account of the settlement, which is referred to as 'Estleie'.[4]
In 1838, the London and South Western Railway Company (L&SWR) built a railway from Southampton to Winchester.[10][12] It was decided to build a station near the little village of Barton; this railway station was originally named Bishopstoke Junction.[10] In 1868, the villages of Barton and Eastley were combined into one parish.[10] A parish church, the Church of the Resurrection, was built in the same year at a cost of £2,300.[13] A local noted author of many novels, Charlotte Yonge, donated £500 towards the building of the church.[14] She was rewarded by being given the privilege to choose a name for the 'new' parish: either Barton or Eastly. She chose Eastly, but with a new modern spelling: Eastleigh.[14] In 1891, the L&SWR Carriage and Wagon Works from Nine Elms in London were transferred to Eastleigh; this was followed by the Nine Elms Locomotive Works, which were moved there in 1909. These railway works were closed in 2006 but have since reopened, albeit on a smaller scale.
Chandler's Ford (originally The Ford[2] and historically Chandlersford) is a largely residential area and civil parish in the Borough of Eastleigh, in Hampshire, England. It had a population of 21,436 according to the 2011 Census.[1]
Chandler's Ford lies on the old Winchester to Southampton road and the 'Ford' is thought to refer either to the ford of Monks Brook[3] on the Hursley Road (shown on the Hursley map of 1588 as "Charnells foord")[3] or on the Winchester-Southampton road.[2] The Chandler's prefix was possibly added in the late 16th century,[2] although there are numerous theories for the origin of the word.[4][5][6][7]
The head offices of Draper Tools,[8] B&Q,[9] Utilita Energy, Selwood and Ahmad Tea[10] are located in Chandler's Ford.
Hiltonbury Farm (now a public house) appeared on a map of 1588 and may originally have been owned by the Hursley Park Estate in nearby Hursley. It was later sold to Cranbury Park Estate and stopped being a working farm in the late 1970s, when the surrounding area was developed. Other communities revolved around other farms in the area but Chandler's Ford was very sparsely populated until the 19th century.
In the mid 19th century, Bell's brickfields was one of the biggest in England, producing 35 million bricks for the construction of the Royal Courts of Justice in The Strand.[11]
In 1889, an iron church and some schools were constructed.[12] The civil parish of Chandlersford was created in 1897, from portions of North Stoneham, North Baddesley and Ampfield, although the railway station remained in the North Baddesley parish.[12]
In 1929, Herbert Collins, a well known Southampton based architect designed the Congregational Church in King's Road.[13] This is now the United Reformed Church. The original building has been extended but the original style of the building remains.
Chandler's Ford used to be a town with mainly housing estates, however there are now various developments of shops and schools that have been built in the area. In the 1920s, building took place in the King's Court, Merdon and Hiltingbury areas. Later, development in the Hursley Road area happened, followed by housing across the Hiltingbury, Scantabout, Peverells Road, Spring Hill and Oakmount areas. More recently, developments in North Millers Dale, South Millers Dale and the new town of Valley Park to the west of the area have completed the mix of housing. Chandler's Ford is considered to be the development to the west of the M3 motorway and now forms the majority of the Eastleigh urban area.
