Page 14 • The HERALD • 9th March 2023 v READ THE HERALD ONLINE: www.herald-publishing.co.uk v TRU-FLOW PLUMBING SERVICES For all your Domestic Plumbing, Tiling, Painting and Decorating Requirements • Fully Insured • Discounts for Senior Citizens Please Contact Andy Tel: 023 8087 0145 • Mobile: 07962 590089 Wet clean or Dry clean • Carpets • Rugs • Upholstery • Cushions • Mattresses • Caravans & Motor Homes Contact Chris for a free estimate and advice. We have full liability insurance 023 8104 0185 07770 792361 clean-u-up@hotmail.com We provide one of the best professional Carpet & Fabric cleaning Systems The Square, Fawley, Southampton SO45 1DD T: 023 8112 3112 E: office@zebra-ltd.co.uk All Plumbing Works Undertaken Full Bathroom Installation Toilet Fix from £75 Fully Insured Free Quotes No Job Too Big or Too Small PLUMBING & BATHROOMS THE THREE FAWLEY VILLAGES by Robin Somes, Fawley and Blackfield Memories e full history of Fawley is far too large a subject to be tackled in depth here. However, there are quite a few aspects of it that are still evident today, even if their reasons are almost forgotten. Among these aspects is that there used to be three separate settlements, too small to be called villages in their own right. e whole southern Waterside area was evidently a patchwork of quite well-de ned little hamlets, most of whose names still survive; Stonehills, Ashlett, Badminston, Ower, Hillhead and Calshot. Further Robin Somes has recently published a new local history book titled Digging up the Past which is now on sale in e Herald o ce. e book includes a collection of 28 illustrated articles, rst published in e Herald between 2021 and 2023, featuring historical events, family connections, and personal recollections of life around Fawley and the Waterside villages. e book is on sale for £5 (cash only) from e Herald o ce or via Robin’s online shop: shop.robinsomes. co.uk New Local History Book for Sale! to the west and south were Ashdown, Stanswood, Nelson’s Place, Stone, Lepe, Mopley, New House, Woodington, White eld, and nally Langley. e 1838 Tithe Map provides an excellent view of these hamlets. Around the village itself, the most important was of course Fawley, with around 10 dwellings, the Poor House, the church, and a scattering of farm buildings. Recorded in the Domesday Book as Falegia, and by the 14th century as Fallele or Falle, it lay north and west of All Saints’ Church, and presumably had been there since the founding of the church in Saxon times. From Fawley, tracks ran eastwards towards the salterns and grazing marshes on the edge e ects in 1846, Rhime Hall itself must have been a dwelling of some size and importance: “Rime Hall, Fawley. To be sold by auction, by Mr. A. Fletcher, at the above premises on Wednesday, September 30, 1846, at eleven o’clock, by order of the Executors of the late John Monday, Esq., the whole of the genuine and modern Household Furniture, two ricks of Hay, Phaeton and Pony, and other effects”. Finally, just east of Rhime Hall was Copythorn, consisting of the large house of that name, and perhaps 3 or 4 other dwellings. Before the advent of the re nery, Copthorne Lane (as it’s now known) led down to the salterns north of Ashlett Mill Pond, while its southern branch joined up with Ashlett Road, as it still does today. Perhaps we’ll look in more detail at these three hamlets in a future episode. held more houses, including the large house from which the hamlet took its name. It is commemorated today by the houses and close that bear its name, south of Fawley Garage. Judging from an advertisement for the sale of household The Fawley villages, from the 1838 Fawley Tithe Map. of Southampton Water, and north to the original Cadland House. To the west, other roadways, more or less aligned with our modern roads, led towards Holbury and Blackwell Common – Black eld not being in existence then. Centred around what’s now Fawley Square and Calshot Road lay Rhime Hall (occasionally spelt Rime, or Rhyme), which though it didn’t have the church,
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