Hyde 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 authorit ...

in the

New Forest The New Forest is one of the largest remaining tracts of unenclosed pasture land, heathland and forest in Southern England, covering southwest Hampshire and southeast Wiltshire. It was proclaimed a royal forest by William the Conqueror, fea ...

near

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 ...

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

, England.

Overview

The parish of Hyde is mostly within the boundary of the

National Park.Welcome to Hyde
Hyde Parish Council, retrieved 15 July 2011 It includes the hamlets of Blissford, Frogham,

Furze Hill Furze Hill (or Furzehill) is a hamlet situated in the New Forest National Park of Hampshire, England. It is in the civil parish of Ellingham, Harbridge and Ibsley. Its nearest town is Fordingbridge, which lies approximately 3.1 miles (5.2 k ...

Hungerford Hungerford is a historic market town and civil parish in Berkshire, England, west of Newbury, east of Marlborough, northeast of Salisbury and 60 miles (97 km) west of London. The Kennet and Avon Canal passes through the town alongside the ...

, North Gorley, Ogdens, and Stuckton, as well as tracts of New Forest

heathland A heath () is a shrubland habitat found mainly on free-draining infertile, acidic soils and characterised by open, low-growing woody vegetation. Moorland is generally related to high-ground heaths with—especially in Great Britain—a coole ...

centred on the Latchmore Brook to the east. The parish has 383 occupied houses, an infant/junior school, a village hall, and two

pubs A pub (short for public house) is a kind of drinking establishment which is licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises. The term ''public house'' first appeared in the United Kingdom in late 17th century, and was ...

History

Historically Hyde was a

hamlet ''The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark'', often shortened to ''Hamlet'' (), is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare's longest play, with 29,551 words. Set in Denmark, the play depicts ...

belonging to the parish of

. The

ecclesiastical parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...

of Hyde was formed in 1855 from part of the parish of Fordingbridge. The church of the Holy Ascension was built in 1855, and is of red brick with stone dressings and consists of chancel, nave, north vestry, south porch and western turret containing two bells.Victoria County History of Hampshire: Fordingbridge
/ref> The village of Hyde remained in the

of Fordingbridge, although from 1868 lands to the east of the village were part of a parish called Ashley Walk,Relationships / unit history of ASHLEY WALK
A Vision of Britain through Time, retrieved 15 July 2011 which lasted until 1932 when Ashley Walk was incorporated into an enlarged Fordingbridge parish. The civil parish of Hyde was created in 1979. The former Admiral of the Fleet,

Peter Hill-Norton Admiral of the Fleet Peter John Hill-Norton, Baron Hill-Norton, (8 February 1915 – 16 May 2004) was a senior Royal Navy officer. He fought in the Second World War as gunnery officer in a cruiser operating on the Western Approaches and in the ...

, lived in Hyde in his retirement.T. A. Heathcote, (2002), ''British admirals of the fleet 1734-1995: a biographical dictionary'', page 116. Leo Cooper

References

External links

Hyde Parish Council website
{{authority control Villages in Hampshire Civil parishes in Hampshire New Forest District