We live in Nursling, which is about four miles to the north west of Southampton. There has been a village here for a very long time (which used to be called Nutshalling until the middle of last century - a word which still endures in local street and house names), but it is now just about part of Southampton. The latest new housing, where we live, was added in 1997-98.
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Image produced from the Ordnance Survey Get-a-map service. Image reproduced with kind permission of Ordnance Survey and Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland. Multi Media Mapping. Most mapping organizations don't let you put their maps on your own pages, but following the other links here will find Nursling for you in various different ways... |
| Click here for an interactive map focused on Nursling | This link provides a direct interface to the Multi Media Mapping pages in a separate window. Click on the map to zoom in further. |
| This link provides a direct interface to the Terraserver. Again, I've put it up in a separate window, and clicking on the image will zoom in. | |
| This link provides a direct interface to the Free Historic Maps provided by Landmark and Ordnance Survey. There's a first edition Ordnance Survey (c. 1872) map of Nursling. Our house now stands somewhere under the letter 'S'! | |
| Click here for a selection of old Hampshire maps covering Nursling, dated 1575-1788 | A fascinating collection of Old Hampshire Mapped images and travel writings at the University of Portsmouth, Department of Geography |
When this page was first started, Nursling didn't seem to have much of a presence on the web. The situation is changing, although any attempt to use a search engine to find Nursling links always results in (a) lots of mis-matches to medical or parenting sites and literature quotations, all concerned with 'nurslings' ie. infants (b) a worrying number of mis-spellings of 'nursing' and (c) links to businesses, particularly those based on Nursling Industrial Estate. Here are a selection of the remainder:
A nice Nursling link - history with photos - on the Hampshire Scene 'Hampshire Villages' site, including some history about St. Boniface (below).
Twin Spires is the home page of the two Anglican churches in the parish and includes a parish profile, with photos. By far the oldest is St. Boniface, and web sites about him account for a lot of the mentions of Nursling on the web - usually in old variant spellings ('Nhutscelle', 'Notesselinge', etc.)
It has an entry in the Roman map of Britain...
'A concise illustrated history of an ancient community in Hampshire, England' including a much nicer satellite image than the Spin image I've linked above, although the resolution isn't as good. Also some more Nineteenth Century mapping.
The Parish of Nursling and Rownhams falls within Test Valley District.
Nursling isn't actually part of the City of Southampton, but is effectively a Southampton suburb, so this page tells you a bit about what's going on over the border.
Romsey is about the same distance away as the centre of Southampton, but in the opposite direction. Nursling looks Romsey-wards for local government, school catchments etc.
North Baddesley is even closer.
We are in the county of Hampshire, and this page provides lots of searchable information on the county, including local services.
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Last modified 17 April 2002