Hampshire Family History Guides

Southamptonshire, Hampshire, or Hants, a maritime county; bounded, on the N, by Berkshire; on the E, by Surrey and Sussex; on the S, by the English channel; on the W, by Dorset and Wiltshire. It includes Hayling and Portsea islands, scarcely separated from the mainland, and the Isle of Wight, separated by the Solent.