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From The Muniment Room, a resource for social history, family history, and local history.

The auction of the North Stoneham Estate took place on 15 May 1953 at the Polygon Hotel in Southampton^[1]. The sale comprised the residual 1357 acres of freehold lands at North Stoneham and Chilworth, including North Stoneham Park, in 38 lots.

The lots^[2]

Lot	Description in auction catalogue	Place	Acreage	Sale price
1	Channels Farm with House, Buildings and 5 Cottages	Channels Farm and five of the Stoneham Estate Cottages Nos. 39-44	93.792	£4,000
2	Park Farm with House, Buildings and 2 Cottages	North Stoneham Park Farm	108.259	£3,400
3	Part of North Stoneham Park and Cottage	The Lawn and Temple Lodge at North Stoneham Park	86.690	No sale
4	Woodland, Lakes and The White Cottage, principally with vacant possession	Site of North Stoneham House and the White Cottage	44.248	£1,000
5	Doncaster Farm with Buildings and 3 Cottages	Doncaster Farm	23.226	£1,000
6	Fifteen Acres Pasture Land	A field at Avenue Park, North Stoneham Park	15.282	£650
7	Seven Acres Pasture Land	A field at Avenue Park, North Stoneham Park	7.464	£500
8	Common Barn Farm with Bungalow and Buildings	Common Barn Farm	67.853	£1,900
9	Woodland site with main road frontage, with vacant possession	Timber plantation at northwest corner of North Stoneham Park	2.145	£170
10	Three Acres of Land	Field north of Common Barn Farm fronting Chestnut Avenue	3.000
11	Six Cottages at North Stoneham	Stoneham Estate Cottages Nos. 26-31	1.140	£300
12	Agricultural Holding with Farmhouse and Cottage	Doncaster Farm house and Cottage	22.351	£900
13	Block of Arable Land with vacant possession 29th September, 1953	Part of Doncaster Farm	81.847	£4,000
14	Cottage	One of Stoneham Estate Cottages Nos. 35-36	0.070	£120
15	No. 5 Magpie Lane	5, Magpie Lane	0.175	£450
16	Nos. 188 and 192 Chestnut Avenue, with vacant possession 29th September, 1953	Durmans farmhouse	0.545	No sale
17	Arable Field and Allotments	Part of Durmans	19.726	£1,600
18	Allotments	Strip between Wide Lane and the railway line, at North Stoneham Farm	2.433	No sale
19	Water Meadows and Decoy Covert, with vacant possession of 179 acres 29th September, 1953	Water meadows at North Stoneham Farm and Swaythling Farm	275.677	£4,800
20	Fishing Rights in the River Itchen, with vacant possession	Itchen Fishery		£2,000
21	Swaythling Farm with House, Buildings and Cottages	Swaythling Farm	4.112	£1,600
22	Woodland site in hand	Fronting Bassett Green Road at the junction with Wide Lane and Mansbridge Road	0.120
23	Building site, and woodland strip, part with vacant possession	A strip with a building plot, fronting the south side of Bassett Green Road	1.036	No sale
24	Nos. 86 and 87 Bassett Green	Stoneham Estate Cottages Nos. 86-87	0.430	£190
25	No. 92 Bassett Green	Stoneham Estate Cottage No. 92	0.880	£100
26	Land zoned for Industrial Development	Fields near Woodside, north of the Eastleigh-Salisbury Railway	10.325	£650
27	Rights of pasturage	Pasturage in Boyatt Meadow	(9)	£130
28	Ditto	Pasturage in Boyatt Meadow	(8)	No sale
29	Manor Farm, Chilworth, with House, 6 Cottages and Buildings	Chilworth Farm, with cottages nos. 5, 10, 11-12, 14, and Walnut Cottage	292.942	£7,250
30	The Kennels, Chilworth, 2 Cottages and Buildings, with vacant possession 29th September, 1953	The Kennels	58.538
31	Wrens Cottage	Wrens Cottage	0.835	£300
32	Roundabouts Wood with valuable oak timber, partly with vacant possession	Roundabouts Wood	14.850	£140
33	Wrens Copse, with valuable oak timber and with vacant possession	Wrens Copse	16.647	£420
34	Misslebrooks Copse, with valuable oak timber and with vacant possession	Misslebrooks Copse	13.943	£240
35	Pasture holding with Buildings	Fields at the junction of Castle Lane and Green Lane	7.044	£410
36	Accommodation Land	Land adjoining Chilworth Tower	12.684	£250
37	Garden Land	Near Chilworth War Memorial	0.281	£20
38	Kiln Farm, Packeridge, with 2 Cottages and Buildings	Toothill Farm with Yew Tree Cottage	66.940	No sale
		Total	1357.510