NETLEY ABBEY MATTERS!
Last updated on 25 August 2026
INTRODUCTION
This is simply what the search engines call the "Homepage" for my website.
It reads like a bit of a Blog at times but it will tell you what new articles, photos etc have been added
on to the website recently and where to find them.
Highlighted words are clickable.
At one end,
Ruins of a 13th century Cistercian Abbey; at the other, a Military Cemetery
tucked in the middle -
a Victorian Village and the ghosts of its former
Military Hospital!
Welcome to the Past Lives and Times of
NETLEY VILLAGE and its former MILITARY HOSPITAL
Let the memories live on!
Use the Search box below if there's something particular you hope is on the website! It should open a different tab.
Because Search is a free service from Google, there may be other results given, not linked to this website.
Researching your Family Tree or a school project perhaps?
If you think that one of your ancestors was treated, served or, perhaps as a family member, lived at Netley Military Hospital during its lifetime (1862 - 1966), we're here to help!
Also, although Julie (Green) and I are principally researchers of Netley Hospital, over the years we've
been searching for those Netley Hospital folk, we have also amassed 100s of records (neither of us are good at throwing stuff away!) of personnel whom we have either proved were not at Netley Hospital or we couldn't say for sure, ie we did not see any actual proof or all we found were military records which didn't specify a medical location.
We are experts at reading/deciphering military handwriting, acronyms, squiggles and/or blurred comments!
We already have full subscriptions for several of the pay-to-view websites and connections to numerous
other collections, archive newspapers and listings. So, before you pay for a subscription to websites such
as Ancestry or Find My Past, why not complete our Contact Form to let us know what info you have and
we will do some checks - free of charge!
Finding your way round the thousands of records online can be frustratingly hard and it's also so important to
cross-check any info you do find; otherwise you may pick up the wrong link and end down
that proverbial rabbit hole!
There is a "Contact Me" form on both Who lived in your House? and Netley Military Hospital.
Clicking on either of the highlighted pages above will take you there - the form is the same on both.
The website will forward your message immediately to me and I aim to reply within 5 - 7 days
at which time I will give you my direct email address for any future correspondence, attachments,
donation receipts etc.
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Here's the link to my Netley Abbey Matters Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/930872582726444
Please feel free to share your memories of the Village and/or the Hospital.
I thought it might be worthwhile to list here the iconic locations which are featured on the
Lost but not Forgotten page of this website.
Castle View and Abbey View, Abbey Hill
Abbey Cinema, Victoria Road
Netley Grange Farm, Grange Lane/Road
Netley Abbey Hotel aka The Lake House
Netley Cliff House, Victoria Road
HMS "Enchantress" - Royal Motor Yacht Floating Clubhouse
1908 London Olympic Games - Motor Boat Races in Southampton Water
Jubilee Hall, New Road
The Market House, Victoria Road
Oakhurst, Ingleside + Leigh Grange, Butt's Road
Hilton, Abbey Hill
Simla House, Station Road aka "Victoria Park Hotel" aka "Benfields House"
The Station Hotel, 113 Station Road
The Manor House Pub, Old Netley
War Memorials
If you think there is another "lost but not forgotten' location within Netley Abbey that should be featured here,
let me know by clicking here and I'll check it out!
Wanted - Photos please!
Please let me know using the above Contact Form if you have any photos you're happy to share
on this website , particularly of the following, but others are always welcome -
Pennington Family - William, Mary Jane Owen, Georgina Louise, Blanche Jacintha, Ada
Downie Sisters - Charlotte Isabella and Anita Florence
William Edginton
Properties on Lost but not Forgotten:
Leigh Grange
Oakhurst
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This Homepage will continue to let you know what new articles, photos etc have been added where
in the last 3 - 4 weeks. Simples.
If you see this image on any of the other website pages, clicking on the symbol should return you to
this Homepage to let you see what else is new so you can go exploring again!
If clicking on the symbol doesn't work, please can you let me know?
Here are the names of Past Residents of Netley Abbey Village who currently feature in
Reverend John Aspinall Addison Robert Beck Chamberlayne Family Major L H Chatfield
Reverend William Alfred Cramer Chevalier
William B Courtenay Crichton Family George Damen
Thomas Denman Downie Sisters Charles Durrant William Edginton
Gould Family Alexander Greaves Reginald C Hollis
(Sorry, can't find the first name of) Mr Lance Douglas McGibbon
Moore Family Abner Pearmain Pennington Family Bertram Ponsford
Rashleigh Sisters Gordon Rice Henry G Ross Sedgewick G Smallden
Tarrant Vanderplank West Family Willoughby Winfield Family Rt Hon Annie Yorke
plus of course all your family/childhood memories of Netley Village and/or the Hospital found in
Shared Memories. Click on the Menu on the left to go to those pages.
Please note that whilst I am an independent researcher with no direct connection to any
of the Local History Societies, I share research with Julie Green and sometimes the
Royal Victoria Chapel Team at RVCP.
The contents and design of this website have been researched and created by me,
including finding the sources stated and as such are subject to copyright.
It's fine to share my research elsewhere but please do the right thing and credit this website
as one of your sources. Thank you.
The newspaper articles displayed on this website have been in the main extracted from the British
Newspaper Archive, www.newspapers.com and FMP Newspapers.
Sources are in black print, underlined, beneath the relevant article
If a word or phrase is in this colour, you should be able to click on it and it
will open on a new tab and let you return to the previous one when you're ready!
From Cistercian Abbey Ruins at one end, through Netley Abbey Village to the Royal Victoria Hospital ...
