Welcome to the Droxford Heritage Archive. Here you will find material related to Droxford's history, covering the period from Norman times to modern day. Explore below the videos, photographs and historical treatises, many created, written or sourced by local residents. Documents can be sorted in a number of different ways and there is a useful word-search facility.
Most documents are available as PDFs, so if you click on the download link and open the file, you can then perform a keyword search within the document by pressing 'Ctrl' and 'F' on your keyboard at the same time and then typing any keywords into the text box that appears in the top right of the viewer window.
| Document title | Author | Date range | Category | Format | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary & All Saints, Droxford, Hampshire – Graffiti | Michael Collins | Heritage | |||
| Droxford Church Victorian Layout | Michael Collins | Heritage, Maps | |||
| Bishop Neville Lovett – Not a Rector but retired to Droxford | Michael Collins | Heritage | |||
| Studwell Uncle Sandy to Jim re possible family connections | Heritage | ||||
| Droxford Fair Church Film | - | ||||
| Studwell – Jim Bower | 11 December 1880 | Heritage | |||
| Church of St. Mary & All Saints Droxford | 1150 | Heritage | |||
| Droxford Church Architectural points of interest | Michael Collins | 1150 - 1882 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Chronology | Michael Collins | 1200 - 1600 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Displays | Michael Collins | 1200 - 1938 | Heritage | ||
| Pipe Roll – Bishop of Winchester – A.D. 1208/09. – Manor of Waltham | Gordon Hope | 1208/09 | Heritage | ||
| Pipe Roll – Bishop of Winchester – A.D. 1210/11 – Manor of Waltham | Gordon Hope | 1210/11 | Heritage | ||
| Extracts relating to DROXFORD from various documents A.D. 1231 to 1327 | Gordon Hope | 1231 - 1327 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Rectors (notes) | Michael Collins | 1231 - 1926 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Rectors Flip-Books | Michael Collins | 1231 - 1945 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Rectors – Heritage | Michael Collins | 1231 - 1946 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Rectors | Michael Collins | 1231 - 1969 | Heritage | ||
| St Mary & All Saints, Droxford A Village Church | Michael Collins | 1231 - 2015 | Heritage | ||
| All Rectors | Michael Collins | 1231 - 2015 | Heritage | ||
| Annotated Church Notes | Michael Collins | 1250 - 1935 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Notes | Michael Collins | 1250 - 1935 | Heritage | ||
| Entries relating to (a) Droxford Village and (b) Midlington in the 1259/60 Custumal of the Hundred of South (i.e. Bishops) Waltham | Gordon Hope | 1259 - 1260 | Heritage | ||
| John De Drokenesford – His life in brief | Gordon Hope | 1265 - 1329 | Heritage | ||
| The Life of John De Drokenesford | Gordon Hope | 1267 - 1330 | Heritage | ||
| The King’s Wardrobe | Gordon Hope | 1272 - 1307 | Heritage | ||
| Post. 1284 – From Register of Bishop of Winchester (Latin) – John De Pontissara | Gordon Hope | 1284 | Heritage | ||
| The Final Settlement | Gordon Hope | 1284 - 1963 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford – A Hampshire Village, its History and its Church | Gordon Hope | 1288 - 1946 | Heritage | ||
| De Moels Family Tree circa 1087 to 1462 – Gordon Hope | 1295 - 1391 | Heritage | |||
| King Edward I overcomes William Wallace at the Battle of Falkirk | Gordon Hope | 1298 | Heritage | ||
| King Edward I returns from Flanders In early A.D. 1298 | Gordon Hope | 1298 | Heritage | ||
| Studwell Bower family tree | 1298 - 1925 | Heritage | |||
| Droxford Church Lady Chapel Poster | Michael Collins | 1300 - 2000 | Heritage | ||
| From the Register of Bishop John de Drokenesford | Gordon Hope | 1315 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Lady Chapel Flip-book | Michael Collins | 1316 - 2000 | Heritage | ||
| Extracts from “The Lay Subsidy of 1334” (ed. Robin E. Glasscock, O.U.P. 1975). | Gordon Hope | 1334 | Heritage | ||
| Extracts relating to Droxford from various documents A.D. 1335 to 1400 | Gordon Hope | 1335 - 1400 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Manor Account | Gordon Hope | 1348 - 1349 | Heritage | ||
| Extracts relating to Droxford from various documents A.D. 1400 to 1500 | Gordon Hope | 1400 - 1500 | Heritage | ||
| Some Rectors of Droxford | Gordon Hope | 1418 - 1945 | Heritage | ||
| Extracts relating to Droxford from various documents A.D. 1500 to 1600 | Gordon Hope | 1500 - 1600 | Heritage | ||
| Studwell Lodge – copyholders | 1556 - 1843 | Heritage | |||
| Droxford Church Enigmas | Michael Collins | 1599 - 1908 | Heritage | ||
| Extracts relating to DROXFORD from various documents A.D. 1600 to 1700 | Gordon Hope | 1600 - 1700 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church & Trail | Michael Collins | 1664 - 1691 | Heritage | ||
| Molendinis and De Drokenesfords | Gordon Hope | 1673 | Heritage | ||
| Villages of the Meon Valley | Michael Collins | 1683 - 2010 | Heritage | ||
| Extracts relating to Droxford from various documents A.D. 1700 to 1800 | Gordon Hope | 1700 - 1800 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church – North Chapel Vault | Gordon Hope | 1701 - 1785 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Rectors | Michael Collins | 1701 - 1934 | Heritage | ||
| Dr. James Chelsum – Rector | Michael Collins | 1782 - 1801 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Vestry | Michael Collins | 1790 - present | Heritage | ||
| Droxford – Hampshire Directory 1792 (poss 1798) | Gordon Hope | 1792 | Heritage | ||
| Extracts relating to Droxford from various documents A.D. 1800 to 1900 | Gordon Hope | 1800 - 1900 | Heritage | ||
| William Garnier – Rector | Michael Collins | 1801 - 1831 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Rector | Michael Collins | 1801 - 1945 | Heritage | ||
| The Honorable Henry Keppel | 1809 - 1847 | Heritage | |||
| J.A. Griffith Colpoys – Rector | Michael Collins | 1831 - 1868 | Heritage | ||
| Studwell Archive | 1841 - 1963 | Heritage | |||
| St Mary & All Saints – The Pews | Michael Collins | 1847 - 1952 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Nineteenth & 20th Century | Michael Collins | 1847 - 2000 | Heritage | ||
| St Mary & All Saints Droxford Stained Glass | Michael Collins | 1868 - 1947 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Variations in Church History | Michael Collins | 1868 - 1886 | Heritage | ||
| Stephen Bridge – Rector | Michael Collins | 1868 - r.1886 | Heritage | ||
| Studwell Lodge – 1881 census | 1881 | Heritage | |||
| St Mary & All Saints, Droxford – Stained Glass | Michael Collins | 1886 - 2000 | Heritage | ||
| Graham Bower Gunnery Lieut | 1896 | Heritage | |||
| Extracts relating to Droxford from various documents A.D. 1900 to 1935 | Gordon Hope | 1900 - 1935 | Heritage | ||
| Canon John Vaughan – Rector | Michael Collins | 1902 - 1910 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church in 1903 | Michael Collins | 1903 | Heritage | ||
| Canon Jacob Stephenson Rector | Michael Collins | 1910 - 1926 | Heritage | ||
| Cannon Leonard S. Etheridge R.D – Rector | Michael Collins | 1926 - 1946 | Heritage | ||
| Studwell – Press report Miss Maud Bower Memorial Shelter 1934 | 1934 | Heritage | |||
| D-Day Map showing bomb sites to the South of Droxford | 1945+ | Heritage, Maps | |||
| Studwell – Droxford in the 1960’s Charles Skipwith | 1960's | Heritage | |||
| Droxford documents held by Hartley Library, Southampton University | Stuart Attrill | 1965 | Heritage | ||
| Thomas G. Strangeways – Rector | Michael Collins | 1965 - 1969 | Heritage | ||
| Re-opening of the Crypt in the North Chapel, Droxford Church 24 February 2015 | Michael Chandler | 1971 - 2015 | Heritage | ||
| St Mary & All Saints Church, Droxford – Report of Archaeological Advisor on the opening of the Crypt in the North Chapel on 24 February 2015 | Michael Chandler | 1973 - 2015 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Historical Sources | Michael Collins | 1980 - 2015 | Heritage | ||
| David Henley – Rector | Michael Collins | 1987 - 2003 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford and East Meon Church Comparisons | Michael Collins | 1990+ | Heritage | ||
| Jim Foley – Rector | Michael Collins | 2003 - 2009 | Heritage | ||
| St Mary & All Saints Church, Droxford – Report of Archaeological Advisor on the Excavations carried out at the North Door week commencing 16 April 2012 | 2012 | Heritage | |||
| St Mary and All Saint’s Church, Droxford Wall paintings in the north chapel | Peter Martindale | 2015 | Heritage | ||
| St Mary & All Saints Church, Droxford – Report of Archaeological Advisor on the opening of a Vault on the South side of the Graveyard on 25 November 2015 | Michael Chandler | 2015 | Heritage | ||
| St Mary & All Saints, Droxford – Statement of Significance | Michael Collins | 2016 | Heritage | ||
| St Mary and All Saints Church, Droxford – Ground Penetrating Radar, Earth Resistance and Detailed Gradiometer Survey Report | 2016 | Heritage | |||
| Extract paper on Soberton (British History) | 2016 | Heritage | |||
| Gordon Hope’s (GH’s) Record of Families and Residences in Droxford | Gordon Hope | 2017 | Heritage, Maps | ||
| Droxford Church Rector List | Michael Collins | 2019 | Heritage | ||
| Studwell Lodge | Gordon Hope | 23 March 2015 | Heritage | ||
| Church Restoration | 23 May 2016 | Heritage | |||
| Excerpts from Droxford’s History up to the Armada | Gordon Hope | 25 July 2019 | Heritage | ||
| Studwell – Letter 26 June 1923 Graham Bower to The Star | 26 June 1923 | Heritage | |||
| St Mary and All Saints’ Church | Ivor Coleman | 27 March 2017 | Heritage | ||
| Church Restoration | 3 October 2016 | Heritage | |||
| St. Mary & All Saints, Droxford (A Guide) | Gordon Hope | 494 - 1969 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church East Window | Michael Collins | 681 - 1900 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Leaflet | Michael Collins | 681 - 1935 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Timeline | Michael Collins | 681 - 1946 | Heritage | ||
| St Mary & All Saints, Droxford | Michael Collins | 681 - 1952 | Heritage | ||
| St Mary & All Saints, Droxford – Statement of Significance | Michael Collins | 681 - 1969 | Heritage | ||
| St Mary & All Saints, Droxford – Statement of Significance | Michael Collins | 681 - 1977 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Leaflet Guide | Michael Collins | 681 - 2000 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Plan guide | Michael Collins | 681 - 2000 | Heritage | ||
| Droxford Church Leaflet St Mary & All Saints Church | Michael Collins | 681 - 2000 | Heritage | ||
| St Mary & All Saints, Droxford | Michael Collins | 681 - 2015 | Heritage | ||
| Church annexe arch | 8 - 9 May 2018 | Heritage | |||
| St Swithun’s Day Service | Michael Collins | 852 - 1946 | Heritage | ||
| Studwell Letter April 1947 enquiry re genealogy | April 1947 | Heritage | |||
| Studwell Lodge, Droxford | Gordon Hope | August 2016 | Heritage | ||
| Studwell – Lieut James Bower Killed January 1880 source Attrill | January 1880 | Heritage | |||
| King Edward I takes an army into Scotland in A.D. 1296 | Gordon Hope | January 23 1296 | Heritage | ||
| Church annexe | July to Sept 2018 | Heritage | |||
| Studwell Letter March 1917 Jim Bower to Graham Bower | March 1917 | Heritage | |||
| 2023 Review and Evaluation of FODC 5 Year Strategic Plan | June Kershaw | November -December 2023 | - | ||
| Studwell – Letter Sept 1926 from Dick Barry to Graham Bower | September 1926 | Heritage | |||
| Studwell – Letter Sept 1927 Jim Bower from Anglo American | September 1927 | Heritage |
