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Description: | Fareham began as a small mediaeval market town and had the Bishop of Winchester as its overlord. In the thirteenth century it was recorded as a borough - a place of special status where plots of land called burgage plots were let out to traders called burgesses. It remained for a time a small manorial borough under the Bishop but eventually relapsed to the status of a village.
The ground plan of the old part of Fareham remains very similar to that of the 13th century. At the north end is the church of St Peter and St Paul, which is Saxon in origin, standing on the high ground which overlooked the head of the tidal creek. The High Street begins east of the church, then curves and widens to accommodate the market stalls and fair booths of the time. At the bottom is an island block of buildings replacing market stalls which had become permanent. East and West Streets, running at right angles to High Street are also wide and used to have stalls and booths as well. East Street continued as a causeway, cutting off the original head of the creek to form a millpond used in the tidal mill. Quays were built further down the street.
The town has a population of over 100,00 and covers almost thirty square miles of south Hampshire.
References:
1. Lloyd, David W. 1974. Buildings of Portsmouth and its environs, p.32.
2. Fareham Borough Council. Borough Guide. | Format: | image/jpeg | License: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 | Rights holder: | Aerofilms | Subjects: | shop building church Ferneham Hall shopping centre street road High Street aerial photograph West Street St Peter and St Paul East Street bypass | Temporal: | start=1991-01-01; end=1991-12-31; | Source: | Sense of place SE | Creator: | Aerofilms | Identifier: | http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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