Welcome to Nursling and Rownhams
Nursling and its churches
are recorded in the Domesday Book but it was not
until 1856 that Rownhams was formed as an ecclesiastical
parish from parts of Nursling, Romsey and North
Baddesley. A united civil parish was formed in
1932 thus becoming Nursling and Rownhams.
Post war development
has resulted in shops, housing estates, an industrial
estate, a new village hall and new schools. In
1964 some 800 acres of the parish were annexed
to Southampton and became Lordswood and Lordshill,
The village was bisected in 1972 when the M27
was constructed.
Nursling is known
to have had a monastery where Wynfrith, better
known as St. Boniface, lived and trained before
travelling widely across Europe as a missionary.
He was born in Crediton, Devon, in 680 and met
a brutal death when travelling abroad on 5th June
755.
St Boniface Church
in Nursling is early 14th Century and St John's
in Rownhams was constructed in the 1850's having
been financed by Oliver Colt who lived in Rownhams
House.
Several interesting
old buildings still exist in the Village including
Grove Place, an Elizabethan Mansion and home to
an independent School until recently, Nursling
Mill now residential use only, old Rownhams School
now a local Community Centre, Rownhams House used
as business offices and of course three Public
Houses, The Horns Inn, The Balmoral and the Four
Horseshoes.
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