Little Woodham
Living history village
Little Woodham, Grange Farm, Barrington Close, Howe Road, Gosport, Hampshire PO13 8NZ
Research and historical information
The following documents below have been researched by members of the society and are available for you as word documents. They provide interesting background information to life in the 17th Century and the surrounding area at that time. Please select to view.
History of Grange farm and Rowner
Description Parish Register of Rowner from 1590 to 1700
Information about Grange farm
Mortgage document of 1638 and subsequent default and redemption
Parish of Rowner
Subsidy men in Rowner, 1597
Inventory of Grange Farm, Rowner 1640
Survey of lands of Henry Brune Esq. 1612
Wills and inventories
Abstract of Will of William Stares of Grange, Rowner 1639
Will of Elizabeth Beard widow of Rowner, buried April 22nd 1639.
Inventory of William Green, 1647
Inventory of Rowner Rectory 1683
Will of William Knight, Yeoman of Rowner. 1648.
John Turner of Rowner dated 28th March 1642
Inventory of Henry Foster of Rowner, buried April 20th 1639
Coinage and the cost of goods in the 17th Century
The tables of coinage
Costings for emigrants in 1630s
Market prices -August 21st 1625 in Southampton
Sea trade and coastal traffic
Description Coastal traffic from Portsmouth 1634
'The Safeguard of Sailors’ or ‘The Great Rutter’ 1594
The safeguard of sailors
Sea trade around Portsmouth in the 1630s
Vessels with foreign cargoes arriving Portsmouth 1637 and 1638
Description of Foreign traffic inwards and outwards 1636 and 1637 inc
Civil war information
Report on Lord Goring, Governor of Portsmouth
The king's ships, summer guard of 1642
Copy of a letter from Portsmouth, 19th August 1642