DOGMERSFIELD, a parish in Hartley-Wintney district, Hants; on the Basingstoke canal, 2 miles E by N of Odiham, and 2½ SW of Winchfield r. station. Post town, Winchfield. Acres, 1, 728. Real property, £1, 394. Pop., 251. Houses, 54. The manor, with all the property, belonged once to the see of Canterbury; had a palace of the Archbishops, the foundations of which are traceable; passed, at the Reformation, to Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton; went afterwards through many hands, to Ellis Mewe, Esq., who took the name of St. John, and whose grandson added that of Mildmay; and belongs now to Lady St. John Mildmay. Homersfield Park, Lady Mildmay's seat, stands in well-wooded grounds, and contains some interesting pictures and a very rich Italian vase. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £331.* Patron, Lady St. J. Mildmay. The church is modern and handsome. Charities, 1¼ acre of poors' land.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))