Hound is a village and

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 ...

in the

borough of Eastleigh The Borough of Eastleigh is a local government district and borough in Hampshire, England, bordering the unitary authority of Southampton, Test Valley, the City of Winchester and the Borough of Fareham. Eastleigh is separated from the New Forest ...

in southern

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. The parish encompasses the villages of

Netley Netley, officially referred to as Netley Abbey, is a village on the south coast of Hampshire, England. It is situated to the south-east of the city of Southampton, and flanked on one side by the ruins of Netley Abbey and on the other by the Ro ...

Butlocks Heath Butlocks Heath is a village in the district of Eastleigh in Hampshire, England. The village lies approximately 3.4 miles (5.4 km) south-east from Southampton. It is in the civil parish of Hound, which also includes Netley. Butlocks Heath and ...

and Old Netley, and includes such landmarks as Netley Castle and

Netley Abbey (Happy Place), Lieu-Saint-Edward, Letley , order= Cistercians , established= 1239 , disestablished= 1536/7 , mother= Beaulieu Abbey , diocese= Diocese of Winchester , founder= Peter des Roches and Henry III , dedication= Virgin Mary and ...

. In the 2001 census, the parish had a headcount of 6,846 living in 2,928 households.

History

The 1868 National Gazetteer described the parish as being in the

Hundred 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...

of "Mainsbridge" and containing

Sholing Sholing, previously Scholing, is a district on the eastern side of the city of Southampton in Southern England. It is located between the districts of Bitterne, Thornhill and Woolston. Various explanations from where the name derives b ...

and

Woolston Woolston may refer to: Places United Kingdom * Woolston, Cheshire, a village and civil parish in Warrington * Woolston, Devon, on the list of United Kingdom locations: Woof-Wy near Kingsbridge, Devon * Woolston, Southampton, a city suburb in Ham ...

as well as Netley. The land was mainly arable farmland at this point, with some pasture and woodland, including a substantial amount of

common land Common land is land owned by a person or collectively by a number of persons, over which other persons have certain common rights, such as to allow their livestock to graze upon it, to collect Wood fuel, wood, or to cut turf for fuel. A person ...

. The parish has been recorded from about 1370, when

John de Bothby John de Bothby, or Boothby ( born c.1320-died after 1382) was an English-born cleric and judge who became Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Biography Boothby was born at Boothby Pagnall in Lincolnshire, the second son of Thomas de Bothby and his wife ...

Lord Chancellor of Ireland The Lord High Chancellor of Ireland (commonly known as Lord Chancellor of Ireland) was the highest judicial office in Ireland until the establishment of the Irish Free State in 1922. From 1721 to 1801, it was also the highest political office of ...

, held the living of Hound.Ball, F. Elrington ''The Judges in Ireland 1221-1921''. London: John Murray, 1926 The civil parish was previously in South Stoneham Rural District from 1894 until the district disappeared in 1932, and in Winchester RD from then until the present Borough of Eastleigh's formation in 1974.

Parish church

The parish church of St Mary the Virgin is medieval (although a Saxon origin has been suggested) with some Victorian rebuilding. It contains a stained glass window by

Patrick Reyntiens Nicholas Patrick Reyntiens OBE (; 11 December 1925 – 25 October 2021) was a British stained-glass artist, described as "the leading practitioner of stained glass in this country." Personal life Reyntiens was born in December 1925 at 68 Ca ...

. The east window portrays the Virgin and Child flanked by two angels and was designed by Reyntiens in 1958–59.Goodall, John (2015). ''Parish Church Treasures''. London: Bloomsbury; p. 277 A second Reyntiens stained glass window was added in 1972 this time on the theme of justice and peace.

References

Villages in Hampshire Borough of Eastleigh {{hampshire-geo-stub