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Figure 4 - Milne’s Map of Hampshire 1791<br />
<strong>Holdenhurst</strong> <strong>Village</strong>. Of the surviving<br />
early dwellings around the village<br />
green, No. 17 and The New House (No.<br />
16 <strong>Holdenhurst</strong> <strong>Village</strong>) of the 1600s<br />
stand prominently to the north of the<br />
green and the thatched cottage Holly<br />
Hurst, No. 20 <strong>Holdenhurst</strong> <strong>Village</strong> of<br />
the 1800s stands to the west of the<br />
green.<br />
5.9 Many of the villagers of <strong>Holdenhurst</strong><br />
would have been farming on a small<br />
scale. The layout of homesteads around<br />
the green can be seen in the tithe<br />
map of 1841, shown in Figure 5. At<br />
this time a picture emerges of a fairly<br />
small community of yeoman farmers,<br />
husbandmen and cottars.<br />
5.10 The map of 1841 (Figure 5) also<br />
illustrates a more isolated homestead<br />
in an area known as Townsend, to the<br />
south-west of the village green. This<br />
should not be confused with the 1990s<br />
housing estate of the same name. The<br />
map reveals a cluster of buildings at<br />
this point at the convergence of three<br />
roads (where <strong>Holdenhurst</strong> <strong>Village</strong> Road<br />
meets Riverside Avenue). The buildings<br />
include a homestead, of which a<br />
sixteenth century cob barn survives<br />
today (Barn to former Townsend<br />
Cottages). Townsend was also the site<br />
of <strong>Holdenhurst</strong>’s Poorhouse, however<br />
this was demolished approximately 100<br />
years ago.<br />
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