Everton is a

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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. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

Hordle Hordle is a village and civil parish in the county of Hampshire, England. It is situated between the Solent coast and the New Forest, and is bordered by the towns of Lymington and New Milton. Like many New Forest parishes Hordle has no vill ...

, west of

Lymington Lymington is a port town on the west bank of the Lymington River on the Solent, in the New Forest (district), New Forest district of Hampshire, England. The town faces Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to which there is a Roll-on/roll-off, car ferry s ...

, in the

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county of

Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Berkshire to the north, Surrey and West Sussex to the east, the Isle of Wight across the Solent to the south, ...

Overview

Everton is at the junction of the A337 and B3058 roads. It is in the southeast of the parish of

.History
, Hordle Parish Council, retrieved 18 July 2010 The village has around 760 houses, the majority having been built since 1970. It also has a village shop, a social club, a

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, and a large nursery. It has a church dedicated to

Saint Mary Mary was a first-century Jewish woman of Nazareth, the wife of Saint Joseph, Joseph and the mother of Jesus. She is an important figure of Christianity, venerated under titles of Mary, mother of Jesus, various titles such as Perpetual virginity ...

which is a daughter church of All Saints,

Milford on Sea Milford on Sea, often hyphenated, is a large coastal village and civil parish in the New Forest district, on the Hampshire coast, England. The parish had a population of 4,660 at the 2011 census and is centred about south of Lymington. Touri ...

. The village has one

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called The Crown.

History

The earliest deeds which mention Everton (c. 1300) spell the name as Yveletona. The name may be equivalent to that of

Yeovilton Yeovilton is a village in Somerset, England, east of Ilchester and north of Yeovil. It had a population of 1,226 in the 2011 census, estimated at 1,418 in 2019. The village is part of ''Yeovilton and District'' civil parish, which includes ...

in Somerset, and made up of two elements: "Gifl" - a Brittonic river name, and "ton" - an

Anglo-Saxon The Anglo-Saxons, in some contexts simply called Saxons or the English, were a Cultural identity, cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. They traced t ...

word for a farm. Subsequent variants of the name include Yelverton, Yeovilton, , and Evelton.Edward King, (1900)
''Old times re-visited in the borough and parish of Lymington, Hants''
page 262. From the time of Charles II down to the beginning of the 19th century, Everton was home to three notable

Catholic The Catholic Church (), also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the List of Christian denominations by number of members, largest Christian church, with 1.27 to 1.41 billion baptized Catholics Catholic Church by country, worldwid ...

families, succeeding each other at Everton House - Steptoe, White, and Lacy. The first

Anglican Anglicanism, also known as Episcopalianism in some countries, is a Western Christianity, Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the ...

church was erected in 1896 and was constructed mainly from wood and corrugated iron.St Mary's Church
, retrieved 18 July 2010 This was replaced in 1970 with the present timber-framed and cedar shingle clad church. Everton saw some action during

World War II World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. On 15 October 1940 at 12:45pm, a Messerschmitt Bf 109E-1 was shot down at Everton.Hampshire Aircraft Crashes and Accidents
Less than a year later, at nearby Efford, on 8 July 1941 at 1:25am, a Heinkel He 111H-3 was shot down by a

Bristol Beaufighter The Bristol Type 156 Beaufighter (often called the Beau) is a British multi-role aircraft developed during the Second World War by the Bristol Aeroplane Company. It was originally conceived as a heavy fighter variant of the Bristol Beaufor ...

, four crew members were killed, but one member of the crew baled out and was captured by members of the local home guard.Winston G. Ramsey, (1990), ''The Blitz then and now, Volume 3'', page 53. Battle of Britain Prints

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* {{authority control Villages in Hampshire