Soberton is a village in the Meon Valley,

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, east of the A32 and a few miles south of the village of

Droxford Droxford ( Drokensford) is a village in Hampshire, England. Geography The village is clustered with slight ribbon development along its main, north–south, undulating road. It is entirely on the lower half of the western slopes of the Meon v ...

. It appears 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 ...

as "Sudbertone" or "Sudbertune". For administration, it is in the Hampshire County Council area, headquartered in

Winchester Winchester is a City status in the United Kingdom, cathedral city in Hampshire, England. The city lies at the heart of the wider City of Winchester, a local government Districts of England, district, at the western end of the South Downs Nation ...

Key features of Soberton include the War Memorial at its centre, the early 16th-century Church of St Peter and St Paul, and ''The White Lion'', a 17th-century

public house 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 wa ...

. The church is part of one of the largest parishes in the United Kingdom. Soberton White Lion

The village was part of a

smuggling Smuggling is the illegal transportation of objects, substances, information or people, such as out of a house or buildings, into a prison, or across an international border, in violation of applicable laws or other regulations. There are variou ...

route during the 18th century, and a vault beneath the church was used for the storage of contraband.

North of the church is a large Georgian manor house, Soberton Towers. This was taken over by the Navy during the 1939-45 war and was used for accommodation for members of the Women's Royal Naval Service (WRENS) until 1971. Soberton is named in the 18th century peerage of Admiral Sir George Anson (1697-1762) " Baron Anson of Soberton". The children's writer Barbara Euphan Todd was brought up in the village.Book Rags biography
Retrieved 18 June 2012.
/ref>

References

External links

Villages in Hampshire {{hampshire-geo-stub