North Stoneham Park

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

North Stoneham Park, or Stoneham Park, at North Stoneham, was a landscaped country park, with a mansion of the same name, and was the seat of the Willis Fleming family. The Georgian mansion was demolished in 1939, and the Park disappeared after the estate was sold in separate lots in 1953. The parkland was, in part, designed by 'Capability' Brown.

North Stoneham Park, a deer park, was probably part of a Saxon ecclesiastical estate in the early Middle Ages. Later it belonged to Hyde Abbey. After the dissolution of the monasteries, the manor was acquired by Thomas Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton. In 1599, the Wriothesley family sold the estate to Sir Thomas Fleming, whose descendants owned it until the 1950s.

John E A Willis Fleming died in 1949, and the Park was divided and sold by his heirs in 1953. Stoneham Golf Club, which celebrated its centenary in 2008, occupies a large part of the former Rough Park, preserving much of the character of the landscape. The former Deer Park is now lost to sports playing fields. The central lakes belong to Eastleigh & District Angling Club. Another surviving area is Home Wood, managed by the Forestry Commission. In 1983, the M27 motorway was completed through the southern side of the park, followed in 1991 by the M3 through the western side.

• North Stoneham Church
• North Stoneham House
• Stoneham War Shrine