Editing Nursling

{{Short description|Village in Hampshire, England}}
{{Use British English|date=November 2024}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{More citations needed|date=September 2014}}
{{Infobox UK place 
|type = Village
|country = England
|coordinates = {{coord|50.94494|-1.47268|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|official_name= Nursling
|static_image_name=Junction of Mill Lane and Station Road, Nursling - geograph.org.uk - 344419.jpg
|static_image_caption=Junction of Mill Lane and Station Road, Nursling
|civil_parish = [[Nursling and Rownhams]]
| population = 5,137
|population_ref = (2011 Census)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11127166&c=Nursling&d=16&e=62&g=6431798&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&o=362&m=0&r=1&s=1482230468979&enc=1|title=Civil Parish population 2011|access-date=20 December 2016|publisher=Office for National Statistics |work=Neighbourhood Statistics}}</ref>
|shire_district= [[Test Valley]]
|shire_county=[[Hampshire]]
|region= South East England
|constituency_westminster= [[Romsey and Southampton North]]
|post_town= [[Southampton, Hampshire|Southampton]]
|postcode_district = SO16
|postcode_area= SO
|dial_code= 023
|os_grid_reference= SU371163
}}
'''Nursling''' is a village in the [[civil parish]] of [[Nursling and Rownhams]], in the [[Test Valley]] district, in [[Hampshire]], England, about {{convert|6|km|mi|abbr=off}} north-west of the city of [[Southampton]]. Formerly called '''Nhutscelle''' (in an 8th-century life of [[Saint Boniface]]), then '''Nutsall''',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dickinson |first=William Leeson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ia0CJL4lFJcC&dq=boniface+isle+of+wight+named&pg=PA64 |title=The Lives of the Saints; Or, Notes Ecclesiological and Historical on the Holy Days of the English Church |date=1865 |publisher=Church Printing Company |pages=64 |language=en}}</ref> '''Nutshalling''' or '''Nutshullyng''' <ref>Plea Rolls of the Court of Common Pleas; National Archives; CP 40/629; in 1418; http://aalt.law.uh.edu/H5/CP40no629/aCP40no629fronts/IMG_0522.htm; second entry, where the plaintiff, Henry Beaufort, bishop of Winchester is in a plea of debt against various inhabitants of Nutshullyng</ref>  until the mid-19th century, it has now been absorbed into the [[suburb]]s of Southampton, although it is not part of the district of Southampton (remaining part of the Test Valley borough).

==History==
[[File:Church of St Boniface Nursling (geograph 5935019).jpg|thumb|left|Church of St Boniface, Nursling, Hampshire]]

At (Nursling)<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20051221082012/http://www.greenflash.demon.co.uk/romap.jpg Section taken from the "Map of Roman Britain"]. Ordnance Survey (1956). Archived from the [http://www.greenflash.demon.co.uk/romap.jpg original] on 21 December 2005.</ref> [[Rome|Romans]] erected a bridge (probably a wooden one as no trace of stone abutments remains) across the [[River Test]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ww2.nrweb.org.uk/history-of-the-village|work=nrweb.org.uk|title=History of The Village}}</ref> below which it widens into its estuary, and there are traces of the Roman road from Nursling to [[Stoney Cross]]. At Nhutscelle a [[Benedictine]] monastery was established in 686, the earliest Benedictine establishment in [[Wessex]] according to [[Bede]]. It became a major seat of learning, and at the end of the 7th century, Winfrith (subsequently [[Saint Boniface]]) studied here under the abbot Winberht, producing the first [[Latin]] grammar to be written in England. He left in 710 for [[Canterbury]], returning briefly around 716 before going to [[Germany]] as a [[missionary]]. The Danes destroyed the monastery in 878 and it was never rebuilt; its exact site  has not been identified, though the  parish church is dedicated to [[Saint Boniface|St. Boniface]].

Thirty households lived in  Hnutscilling, according to the [[Domesday Survey]], belonging to the [[Bishop of Winchester]].

The church of St. Boniface largely dates from the 14th century with some 13th century possibly Saxon material.<ref name=Bailey417 /> It was restored over two years from 1881 and again in 1890.<ref name=Bailey417>{{cite book |last1=O’Brien |first1=Charles|last2=Bailey |first2=Bruce|last3=Pevsner |first3=Nikolaus |last4=Lloyd |first4=David W. |date=2018 |title=The Buildings of England Hampshire: South |publisher=Yale University Press |pages=417–420|isbn=9780300225037}}</ref>
 
A rectory was across the road from the church in 1778.<ref name=Bailey417 /> It survives as Nursling House.<ref name=Bailey417 />

[[O. G. S. Crawford]], the [[Archaeology|archeologist]], lived in Nursling during [[World War II]], and kept much rare material from the [[Ordnance Survey]] office in [[Southampton]] in his garage. This foresight saved much important historical material from destruction when the offices were burnt out in an [[airstrike|air raid]]. The cricketer [[William Henry Harrison (cricketer)|William Henry Harrison]] was born in Nursling.

In 1931 the civil parish had a population of 727.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10162166/cube/TOT_POP|title=Population statistics Nursling CP/AP through time|publisher=[[A Vision of Britain through Time]]|accessdate=23 April 2024}}</ref> On 1 April 1932 the parish was abolished to form "Nursling and Rownhams".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10162166|title=Relationships and changes Nursling CP/AP through time|publisher=A Vision of Britain through Time|accessdate=23 April 2024}}</ref>

==Present day==
Nursling Industrial Estate, adjacent to the [[M271 motorway|M271]], houses several major businesses, such as Tesco, Norbert Dentressangle and Meachers, and is ably served by transport links, the motorway giving easy access to the Southampton container terminal, as well as the motorway links to London and the Midlands.

Nursling is also home to one of the two [[South Central Ambulance Service]] stations that serve the [[Southampton]] area.

[[Grove Place]] is a Grade I [[listed building]] in Nursling.<ref>{{NHLE|desc=Grove Place House Northcliffe school|num=1339157|access-date=21 Jan 2019}}</ref> Now converted into retirement apartments, the building was originally a [[country house]] and was converted into a [[lunatic asylum]], Later it became a private school, the Northcliffe School for boys, then, later, the [[The Atherley School|Atherley]] girls' school, before being developed for its present purpose.

==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Nursling}}

*[https://ww2.nrweb.org.uk/ Parish of Nursling and Rownhams]
*[http://nandrhistorygroup.wix.com/nurslingandrownhams/ Nursling and Rownhams History Group] Local History in Nursling and Rownhams, Hampshire
*[http://www.twinspires.org.uk/ St Boniface Church, Nursling]
*[http://www.ltvas.org.uk/ Romsey Local History Society] Local History in Romsey and its surrounding area
*[https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol3/pp433-439 Nursling, A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1908.]

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[[Category:Villages in Hampshire]]
[[Category:Former civil parishes in Hampshire]]
[[Category:Test Valley]]