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Trying to find out about a village called Easton near winchester hampshire?

I am tracing my family tree and a name keeps popping up with an address in Easton Winchester Hants. No immediate family to ask questions about it.....


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I found this:
Easton is a village in Hampshire, United Kingdom, situated on the River Itchen, 2⾠miles north east of Winchester.

In 1870-72, John Goring's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Easton like this:

"EASTON, a village and a parish in Winchester district, Hants. The village stands on the river Itchen, near the Southwestern railway, 2⾠miles NE by N of Winchester; is small and uninteresting; and has a post office under Winchester. The parish comprises 2,734 acres [11 kmⲝ. Real property, ⣳, 656. Pop., 455. Houses, 106. The property is much subdivided. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, ⣵14.* Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is late Norman; has a rich south doorway, and an apsidal vaulted chancel; contains a monument to Bishop Barlow's widow, recording that her five daughters were all married to bishops; and was restored in 1850. There is a Wesleyan chapel."