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LAINSTON, an extra-parochial tract in Winchester district, Hants; 3 miles NW of Winchester r. station. It formerly was in all respects a parish, and still is so ecclesiastically. Post-town, Winchester. Acres, 11 0. Real property, £212. Pop., 33. Houses, 4. One of the houses is a private lunatic asylum, within grounds of about 40 acres; was built in the time of Charles II.; and was once the seat of Lord Bayning. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £34. Patron, Sir F. H. Bathurst, Bart. The church is in ruins; and it was the place where Walpole's "Ælia Lælia Chudleigh" married Captain Harvey, afterwards Earl of Bristol.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "an extra-parochial tract" (ADL Feature Type: "countries, 4th order divisions") |
| Administrative units: | Lainston Parish Winchester Poor Law Union/Registration District Hampshire Ancient County |
| Place: | Lainston |
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