During the 19th century, Hurst Spit and adjacent areas were transferred to Milford whilst the hamlet of Everton was included in Hordle.

[4] The present parish church, All Saints, was built in 1872 and succeeded a previous building on the same site dating from 1830 which fell down.

Prior to this, the parish church was for some 700 years located a mile further south, where the churchyard still remains at Hordle Cliff.

[12] With the enclosure of Arnewood Common in the early nineteenth century, the main centre of population moved northwards, away from the coast, and to meet this change the ancient parish church was demolished in 1830 and moved to its present situation close to the now enclosed Downton Common, two miles (3 km) to the north.

[4] In the 1870s, Hordle Grange on Vaggs Lane was, for 3 years, home to the religious sect known locally as the New Forest Shakers.

[13] They were eventually evicted from this home and they moved to nearby Tiptoe, where they lived in tents until their leader, Mary Ann Girling, died in 1886.

[14] After about 1920 considerable infilling took place in the parish and this accelerated in the 1950s and 60s leading to a much increased population that largely seeks its livelihood in the neighbouring towns of Lymington and New Milton.

[4] Hordle today, despite considerable growth, still manages to retain its rural character helped by the green belts that separate it from the adjoining parishes.

The site of the old church is at Hordle Cliff, about 2 miles to the south of the present village, and consists only of a graveyard inclosure.

[3] Several illustrations of the old church are preserved at the vicarage and show it to have consisted of chancel, north and south transepts with chapels, nave and central bell turret.

[16] The Domesday Book mentions six saltpans here[9] but the industry declined thereafter and ceased well before the end of the 14th century apart from a saltworks on Hurst Spit.