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In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Woolston like this:
WOOLSTON, a chapelry in St. Mary-Extra parish, Hants; on the Southampton and Netley railway, 2½ miles ESE of Southampton. It was constituted in 1864; and it has a post-office under Southampton, and a r. station. Pop., 1,110. Much of the land was formerly open heath, but is now occupied by neat villas. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £150. Patron, the Bishop of W. The church was built in 1864, and is in the decorated English style.
Woolston is now part of SOUTHAMPTON Unitary Authority. Click here for graphs and data of how SOUTHAMPTON has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Woolston itself, go to Statistics.
How to reference this page:
GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Woolston, in Southampton and Hampshire | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.
URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/21214
Date accessed: 08th April 2026
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