Editing Totton and Eling (section)

==History==

===Early history===
Eling's attractions include the parish church and [[Eling Tide Mill]] Experience. St Mary's is a Norman church built on Saxon foundations with registers dating back to 1537. The Eling Tide Mill Experience is Eling Tide Mill, its visitor centre, and the outdoor walks around the mill pond at Bartley Water and the Solent Water shoreline at Goatee Beach.  Eling Tide Mill is one of the very few working tide mills in the UK but cannot be equated with the mill listed in the Domesday Book.<ref name="VCH Hants">"{{cite web | title=Parishes: Eling', A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4 (1911), pp. 546–558. | url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56879&strquery=eling.| access-date=3 April 2008}}</ref> Hampshire's only surviving medieval toll bridge is here, across Bartley Water by the side of the Tide Mill. This has been in use since at least 1418 and still charges users today. The Eling Tide Mill Experience was closed for refurbishment from 2015 and reopened 9 April 2018.

=== 19th century ===
As of 1875, the name of the parish was Eling, despite Totton being the larger settlement. At this time, according to [[Kelly's Directory]] at the time, the parish was within:

* the Southern division of Hampshire
* the [[Hundred (county division)|hundred]] of [[Redbridge, Southampton|Redbridge]]
* [[New Forest]] [[Poor Law Union]]
* [[Romsey]] [[Petty sessional division|Petty Sessional Division]]
* [[Southampton]] [[County Court (England and Wales)|County court district]]
* the [[Diocese of Winchester]] and [[Archdeacon of Winchester|Archdeaconry of Winchester]]
* and the [[Rural dean|rural deanery]] of [[Fordingbridge]].

The parish was divided into 16 [[Tithing|tithings]]:

* Bartley-Regis
* Bauldoxfee
* Bistern with Bartley
* Colebury
* Durley
* North Eling
* South Eling
* Langley
* Loperwood
* Marchwood
* Rumbridge
* Tatchbury
* Great Testwood
* Little Testwood
* Wade
* Wigley Ower

It was also divided into five ecclesiastical districts: Eling St Mary, North Eling, Netley, Marchwood and Colbury.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kelly |first=Edward Robert |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8UTjZcaxEUwC&dq=eling+hampshire&pg=PA134 |title=Hampshire Including the Isle of Wight. With Maps ... |date=1875 |language=en}}</ref>

===Recent history===
The original village of Totton can be described as the areas of Totton, Testwood and the Salmon Leap, dissected by the A36 and the [[A336 road|A336]] and bordered by the [[River Test]]. From this, many new developments were made to expand the town. The Calmore estate was built in the early 1970s to the north of the town, and subsequent housing has merged the estate to the town as a whole. Extended housing to the Hounsdown region also occurred during the 1970s, with the construction of the school and the increased housing found there. In the late 1980s and 1990s, more housing was built to the west of the town towards Netley Marsh and along Ringwood Road. These developments, collectively referred to as West Totton, consisted of a new communal area and church and hall as well as huge amounts of new homes.