Harbridge is a small village located some four kilometres north of Ringwood and a similar distance south of

Fordingbridge Fordingbridge is a town and broader civil parish with a population of 6,000 on the River Avon in the New Forest District of Hampshire, England, near the Dorset and Wiltshire borders and on the edge of the New Forest, famed for its late medieva ...

, in southwest

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial county, ceremonial and non-metropolitan county, non-metropolitan counties of England, county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English citi ...

, England. It is in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below districts and counties, or their combined form, the unitary authority ...

Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley is a civil parish in the west of the English county of Hampshire. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 1,171. The civil parish was formed in 1974 by the amalgamation of the three titular village ...

Overview

The village of Harbridge is at the edge of the low meadow land to the west of the River Avon.Harbridge - Victoria County History of Hampshire
/ref> To the south lies

Somerley Somerley is a large Georgian Grade II* listed English country house that is situated in the civil parish of Ellingham and Harbridge with Ibsley in the New Forest district in Hampshire, England. It is 2 miles (3 km) west of the New Fores ...

, home of the Earls of Normanton.

History

The name Harbridge probably means "Hearda's bridge".Harbridge, Old Hampshire Gazetteer
/ref> In the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

of 1086, Bernard the Chamberlain held Harbridge from the King. Before 1066 it had been held by Ulveva. Harbridge is a referred to as a manor by the early 15th century. In the early 19th century the manor passed to the Earl of Normanton, and like nearby

Ibsley Ibsley is a village in Hampshire, England. It is about 2.5 miles (4 km) north of the town of Ringwood. It is in the civil parish of Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley. Overview The village of Ibsley lies to the east of the River Avon on the m ...

and Ellingham became part of his estate of Somerley. Harbridge was a

until 1974, when the parish was amalgamated with the parishes of Ellingham and Ibsley. The church of All Saints consisting of chancel, nave, and west tower, was rebuilt in 1838. The tower retains its 15th-century masonry, but it was raised in the 19th century reconstruction. Coade stone was used for various decorative elements during its reconstruction.

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External links

Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley Parish Council
{{authority control Villages in Hampshire New Forest District