DAMERHAM (South), a parish and a hundred in Wilts. The parish is in Fordingbridge district; lies on an affluent of the river Avon, at the boundary with Dorset, 3 miles W of Fordingbridge r. station, and 7½ NW by N of Ringwood; includes the tythings of East End, North End, and South End; and has a post office, of the name of Damerham, under Salisbury. Acres, 4, 310. Real property, with Martin and Whichbury, £9, 674. Pop., 697. Houses, 149. The property is divided among a few. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Salisbury. Value, 320.* Patron, the Earl of Chichester. The church is good; and there are chapels for Independents and Baptists. -The hundred contains also four other parishes. Acres, 16, 832. Pop., 3, 008. Houses, 694.

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