CHARFORD (NORTH), a parish in the hundred of
FORDINGBRIDGE, New Forest (West) division of the
county of SOUTHAMPTON, 3 miles (N. by E.) from
Fordingbridge, containing, with the tything of South
Charford, 132 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual
curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester,
rated in the king's books at £5. 13, 4. The church,
which was dedicated to St. Peter and St. Paul, is in
ruins. In the Saxon annals this place is called " Cerdickford,"
from Cerdic, who defeated the Britons near a
ford on the Avon, and subsequently became the founder
of the West Saxon kingdom.