Description
A compact history of the villages of Dummer and Kempshott in Hampshire, England.
This compact volume offers histories of two Hampshire villages: Dummer and Kempshott. Dummer, which is south of Basingstoke, has a rich and well documented history and is a typical chalkland settlement supported by a sheep and corn economy. The diaries of the area's chief nineteenth-century landowner, Stephen Terry, give a vivid picture of Dummer life in the period, including the coming of the railways and visitors to the parish. The history of Kempshott, meanwhile, centers on Kempshott House, a grand mansion built in 1733. Foremost among those who lived at Kempshott House is the Prince of Wales, who would eventually become George IV, who leased the house as a hunting lodge and thereby transformed the social and sporting life for the gentry of north Hampshire.
Author: Jennie Butler, Sue Lane
Publisher: University of London Press
Published: 05/06/2023
Pages: 164
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.92h x 6.93w x 0.47d
ISBN13: 9781915249081
ISBN10: 1915249082
BISAC Categories:
- History | Europe | Great Britain | Victorian Era (1837-1901)
- Social Science | Human Geography
- Social Science | Sociology | Rural
About the Author
Jennie Butler is an independent historian of the Hampshire Victoria County History, specializing in the history of education, the transcription of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century wills and inventories, and evaluation of census material. Sue Lane is an independent historian of the Hampshire Victoria County History. She has coauthored the VCH volume Cliddesden, Hatch and Farleigh Wallop.