Nursling

Nursling
Nursling Street
Nursling
Nursling shown within Hampshire
Population	5,137 (2011 Census)
OS grid reference	SU371163
Civil parish	Nursling and Rownhams
District	Test Valley
Shire county	Hampshire
Region	South East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Southampton
Postcode district	S016
Dialling code	023

Police	Hampshire
Fire	Hampshire
Ambulance	South Central
EU Parliament	South East England
UK Parliament	North West Hampshire
List of places UK England Hampshire 50°56′42″N 1°28′22″W / 50.94494°N 1.47268°W / 50.94494; -1.47268Coordinates: 50°56′42″N 1°28′22″W / 50.94494°N 1.47268°W / 50.94494; -1.47268

Nursling is a village in Hampshire, England, situated in the parish of Nursling and Rownhams, about 6 kilometres north-west of the city of Southampton. Formerly called Nhutscelle (in an 8th-century life of Saint Boniface), then Nutshalling or Nutshullyng until the mid-19th century, it has now been absorbed into the suburbs of Southampton, although it is not officially part of the city (remaining part of the Test Valley borough).

At Onna (Nursling) [1], the Romans erected a bridge (probably a wooden one as no trace of stone abutments remains) across the River Test, below which it widens into its estuary, and there are traces of the Roman road from Nursling to Stoney Cross. At Nhutscelle a Benedictine monastery was established in 686, the earliest Benedictine establishment in Wessex according to Bede. It became a major seat of learning, and at the end of the 7th century, Winfrith (subsequently Saint Boniface) studied here under the abbot Winberht, producing the first Latin grammar to be written in England. He left in 710 for Canterbury, returning briefly around 716 before going to Germany as a missionary. The Danes destroyed the monastery in 878 and it was never rebuilt; its exact site has not been reestablished, though the parish church is dedicated to St. Boniface.

Thirty households lived in Hnutscilling, according to the Domesday Survey, belonging to the Bishop of Winchester.

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