Stubbington

At the time of the Domesday survey, Stubbington formed part of the possessions of Earl Godwin under King Edward. By 1086 it was held by Hugh of Port. The Domesday entry records nine households (five villagers and four smallholders), three ploughlands, two acres of meadow, and a value of £3. The pre-Conquest value under Earl Godwin was £2 10s.

The overlordship passed from the de Port family to their descendants the St Johns in the early thirteenth century. John de St John, lord of Basing, granted the overlordship to the abbot and convent of Titchfield in 1309.

From an early date the St Johns' interest was held by Reginald de Mohun and his successors as sub-tenants. Before the end of the thirteenth century the Mohun family granted their holding to John de Rayny. His grandson William de Rayny granted all his lands in Stubbington to Titchfield Abbey c.1293. The abbey received a grant of free warren in the same year. A royal charter of 1320 confirmed the grant and freed the abbot from suits and services.

During the fourteenth century the abbey acquired further lands in Stubbington through various grants. The manor continued to be noted separately among the abbey's possessions until 1428, after which it was merged into the Titchfield accounts.

In 1537 the last abbot of Titchfield, John Sampson (bishop of Thetford), surrendered the abbey's possessions to the Crown. The estates were granted the same year to Thomas Wriothesley, later created Earl of Southampton, for services rendered at the Dissolution.

In the 1540s Henry VIII granted Stubbington to Winchester College as part of a compensatory exchange. The College surrendered its valuable Middlesex estates, including the manor of Harmondsworth, which the king wanted for his Hampton Court holdings. In return, the College received former monastic properties including Stubbington, Moundsmere and Woodmancote in Hampshire, together with manors in Dorset, Somerset, Surrey and Gloucestershire. Winchester College held manorial records for Stubbington from 1189 to 1925. Court books survive from 1556 to 1937.