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Milton Parish, just South of the New Forest
boundary, is made up of many separate manors. Bashley was
mentioned in 1053, and again in the Domesday Survey as being
under Priory ownership. Domesday also mentioned Milton,
Barton, Wootton, Fernhill and Ashley.
About 150 mediaeval deeds have survived, as
well as Court Rolls, for the areas granted in his will by J.
Fromond (died 1420) to Winchester College.
The church, North of the green, first
mentioned in 1170 as linked with the Priory, now has
associated chapels at Bashley and Ashley. The church register
was started in 1654. There are also chapels founded in the
nineteenth century by the Baptist movement, which was very
strong at that time. Places of worship of other denominations
are to be found in both
Milton
and Barton.
Barton's fossil beds are known worldwide, and
at least 100 palaeolithic flints, some Bronze Age urns and
various Celtic coins have been found in the parish.
The buildings of the National School (1835)
were replaced by first world war huts before new Infant and
Junior Schools were built north-east of the original site.
The coming of the railway in 1888 meant that
the business centre moved to the Station Road area, and the
consequent expansion of the town gave rise to the title "New
Milton" by 1904.
From 1926 to 1932 the Parish was administered
by its own Urban District Council. It was then absorbed into
the Lymington Municipal Borough until 1974, when Local
Government Reorganisation brought it under the jurisdiction of
the New Forest District Council. From 1979 the Parish has
incorporated the former Parishes of Barton, Bashley and
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