COPYTHORNE (formerly known as North Eling) was constituted a civil parish under Sec. 57 of the “Local Government Act, 1888,” by order of the County Council, 16th July, 1894; the parish, which is on the river Cadnam, comprises the village of Winsor, 4 ½ miles west-by-north from Eling and Cadnam and Bartley, Ower and Newbridge, and is 2 miles north-west from Lyndhurst Road station on the Southampton and Dorchester section of the London and South Western railway and g miles north-west from Southampton, in the New Forest division of the county, Southampton county court district, Lymington petty sessional division, New Forest union, Lyndhurst rural deanery and archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester. The ecclesiastical parish of North Eling was formed in 1837 from the civil parish of Eling. The church of St. Mary, at Copythorne, built in 1834, is an edifice of brick in a debased Gothic style, consisting of nave, south aisle, north porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing one bell: the church was restored and re-seated in 1891—2 at a cost of £1,600, and now affords 400 sittings, 280 of which are free. The register dates from the year 1834. The living is a vicarage, net income £120, in the gift of the trustees, of the Rev. W. J. G. Phillips, and held by the Rev. Alfred Montague Walker M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin. There are Congregational and Primitive Methodist chapels at Cadnam, a Mission Hall at Winsor and a Baptist chapel at Bartley. The parish includes several manors. Paultons, the property and residence of Roger Cyril Hans Sloane-Stanley esq. who is the principal landowner, has a park of 230 acres, containing a lake of nearly 22 acres in extent and three-quarters of a mile long. Beechwood House is the residence of the Dowager Lady Heathcote. The soil is stiff day; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The rateable value is £6,275. The population in 1891 was 1,470.

Schools

National, Copythorne, built in 1835, & enlarged in 1894, for 260 children; average attendance, 192.

National, Bartley, built in 1850; average attendance, 115.