Nursling

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title: "Nursling" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["villages-in-hampshire", "former-civil-parishes-in-hampshire", "test-valley"] description: "Village in Hampshire, England" topic_path: "general/villages-in-hampshire" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursling" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village in Hampshire, England ::

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Field	Value
type	Village
country	England
coordinates
official_name	Nursling
static_image_name	Junction of Mill Lane and Station Road, Nursling - geograph.org.uk - 344419.jpg
static_image_caption	Junction of Mill Lane and Station Road, Nursling
civil_parish	Nursling and Rownhams
population	5,137
population_ref	(2011 Census)
shire_district	Test Valley
shire_county	Hampshire
region	South East England
constituency_westminster	Romsey and Southampton North
post_town	Southampton
postcode_district	SO16
postcode_area	SO
dial_code	023
os_grid_reference	SU371163
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|type = Village |country = England |coordinates = |official_name= Nursling |static_image_name=Junction of Mill Lane and Station Road, Nursling - geograph.org.uk - 344419.jpg |static_image_caption=Junction of Mill Lane and Station Road, Nursling |civil_parish = Nursling and Rownhams | population = 5,137 |population_ref = (2011 Census) |shire_district= Test Valley |shire_county=Hampshire |region= South East England |constituency_westminster= Romsey and Southampton North |post_town= Southampton |postcode_district = SO16 |postcode_area= SO |dial_code= 023 |os_grid_reference= SU371163 Nursling is a village in the civil parish of Nursling and Rownhams, in the Test Valley district, in Hampshire, England, about 6 km north-west of the city of Southampton. Formerly called Nhutscelle (in an 8th-century life of Saint Boniface), then Nutsall, Nutshalling or Nutshullyng until the mid-19th century, it has now been absorbed into the suburbs of Southampton, although it is not part of the district of Southampton (remaining part of the Test Valley borough).

History

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At (Nursling) Romans erected a bridge (probably a wooden one as no trace of stone abutments remains) across the River Test, below which it widens into its estuary, and there are traces of the Roman road from Nursling to Stoney Cross. At Nhutscelle a Benedictine monastery was established in 686, the earliest Benedictine establishment in Wessex according to Bede. It became a major seat of learning, and at the end of the 7th century, Winfrith (subsequently Saint Boniface) studied here under the abbot Winberht, producing the first Latin grammar to be written in England. He left in 710 for Canterbury, returning briefly around 716 before going to Germany as a missionary. The Danes destroyed the monastery in 878 and it was never rebuilt; its exact site has not been identified, though the parish church is dedicated to St. Boniface.

Thirty households lived in Hnutscilling, according to the Domesday Survey, belonging to the Bishop of Winchester.

The church of St. Boniface largely dates from the 14th century with some 13th century possibly Saxon material.

A rectory was across the road from the church in 1778. It survives as Nursling House.

O. G. S. Crawford, the archeologist, lived in Nursling during World War II, and kept much rare material from the Ordnance Survey office in Southampton in his garage. This foresight saved much important historical material from destruction when the offices were burnt out in an air raid. The cricketer William Henry Harrison was born in Nursling.

In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 727. On 1 April 1932 the parish was abolished to form "Nursling and Rownhams".

Present day

Nursling Industrial Estate, adjacent to the M271, houses several major businesses, such as Tesco, Norbert Dentressangle and Meachers, and is ably served by transport links, the motorway giving easy access to the Southampton container terminal, as well as the motorway links to London and the Midlands.

Nursling is also home to one of the two South Central Ambulance Service stations that serve the Southampton area.

Grove Place is a Grade I listed building in Nursling. Now converted into retirement apartments, the building was originally a country house and was converted into a lunatic asylum, Later it became a private school, the Northcliffe School for boys, then, later, the Atherley girls' school, before being developed for its present purpose.

References

References

1. "Civil Parish population 2011". Office for National Statistics.
2. Dickinson, William Leeson. (1865). "The Lives of the Saints; Or, Notes Ecclesiological and Historical on the Holy Days of the English Church". Church Printing Company.
3. Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40/629; in 1418; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no629/aCP40no629fronts/IMG_0522.htm; second entry, where the plaintiff, Henry Beaufort, bishop of Winchester is in a plea of debt against various inhabitants of Nutshullyng
4. [https://web.archive.org/web/20051221082012/http://www.greenflash.demon.co.uk/romap.jpg Section taken from the "Map of Roman Britain"]. Ordnance Survey (1956). Archived from the [http://www.greenflash.demon.co.uk/romap.jpg original] on 21 December 2005.
5. "History of The Village". nrweb.org.uk.
6. (2018). "The Buildings of England Hampshire: South". Yale University Press.
7. "Population statistics Nursling CP/AP through time". [[A Vision of Britain through Time]].
8. "Relationships and changes Nursling CP/AP through time". A Vision of Britain through Time.
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