Section 1
The first section Is the short length of the west boundary with New Alresford. The length of the boundary between BIshops Sutton and New Alresford Parishes is only three quarters of a mile.
The perambulation starts on what is now the B3047 just the Alresford side of the Railway bridge at what was called Bowling Close Gate, and headed south with Bowling Close on the Sutton side and Marrow Ditch on the Alresford side.(Bowling close being subsequently cut through when the railway was built 120 years later). Sweatly Row is the hedge row on the west of the solar farm. The Cump would have been in the corner where the old section of White hill Lane is, when it was cut of by the A31 bypass. The boundary then runs west just north of the old section of White Hill lane, then turns south again to cross the old White Hill Lane at its junction with Appledown lane. Appledown Gate would have been about there.
Village History
Village History
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Parish Records - Baptisms, Marriages, Burials
The Church of St. Nicholas has been baptising, marrying and burying villagers since it was first built in the 12th Century.
Baptisms, marriages and burials began to be recorded in England and Wales from the 5th September 1538 - ordered by Thomas Cromwell following Henry VIII's split with the Roman Catholic Church and the setting up of the Church of England. The records are handwritten volumes usually kept at the time in the Parish Church (there are also non-conformist records - for example the Wesleyan Methodist circuits). They are generally kept nowadays in County Records offices, with fiches available to the public.
The Parish Register records for Bishop's Sutton were started in 1711. The records were originally transcribed by Mark Allen in 2014 for FreeReg, the online charity dedicated to provide free internet searches of transcribed parish registers, non-conformist records etc. in the UK. They have been provided here for personal use for family history searchers and geneaologists.
Double-Dates
Until 1752, you will see the record year as two years if the date is between 1 January and 24th March. This is confusing, and the reason is this: The Julian calendar was in use up until 1752, where the year began on 24th March until the following 25th March. In 1752 the calendar changed to the current Gregorian one and as much of Europe was already using the Gregorian, records were 'double-dated' showing both possible years if the record was between 1 Jan and 24 March.