Where is Gosport ?
In 1922 the Borough of Gosport consolidated two separate, but intimately linked areas; Alverstoke which covered over 3,000 acres, and the much smaller Gosport. Technically the names referred to two separate manors, but the manorial system had disintegrated some seventy years previously. Professor Beresford writes of medieval new towns “there were characteristic forms which the interior plans of planted towns reveal especially the…grid-forms of streets. There were also characteristic positions for new towns to take up, in relation to older settlements. It has been shown that a planted town was likely to have a small area …; it was likely to lie near the edge of an existing parish; and it was likely to be surrounded by the territory of the rural village from which the site had been taken. It was also unlikely, in the first instance, to have a town church with full independence; the typical situation is dependence, as a chapelry, on the parish church of the village within whose limits
