SUTTON-UNDER-BRAILS, 4 miles S.E. from Shipston-on-Stour. Popula. 236. This parish is locally situate in Warwickshire.

SWELL (Upper), 1 mile N.W. from Stow. Popula. 82.

SWELL (Lower), 1 mile W. from Stow. Popula. 263.

SWINDON, 1 mile N.W. from Cheltenham. Popula. 201.

SYMONDSHALL, in Wootton-under

TOCKINGTON (Lower), in Almondsbury parish, and popula. included therein.

therein. 4 miles distant N.E.

TAYNTON, 2 miles S. from Newton. Popula. 516.

TETBURY, 99 miles S.W. from London. Popula. 2,734. Market, Wed.; fairs, Ash-Wed., Wed. before and after April 5, July 22, for cattle, lambs, sheep, and horses.

TEWKESBURY, 104 miles S.W. from London. Popula. 4,962. Market, Wed. and Sat.; fairs, second Mon. in March, first Wed. in April, May 14, June 22, Sept. 4, Oct. 10, for tanned leather, several sorts of cattle and pedlary. A corporate town, having 24 burgesses, from whom are annually chosen 2 bailiffs; sends 2 members to parliament; right of election is in the freemen at large; number of voters, 500. Here was a Benedictine Monastery, built and endowed by two brothers, Oddo and Doddo, in the year 715, but enlarged in the year 1102, by Robert Fitz Haimon, noble Norman; valued at 1,598l. 1s. 3d. yearly, now worth 31,961. 5s.; granted, 36 Hen. VIII., to Thomas Strowde, Walter Erle, and James Paget.

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THORNBURY, 122 miles S.W. from London. Popula. 3,760. Market, Sat.; fairs, Easter-Mon., Aug. 15, Mon. before St. Thomas, Dec. 21, for cattle and pigs.

TIBBERTON, 5 miles N.W. from Glou

cester. Popula. 282.

TIDENHAM, 12 miles S.W. from Newn

ham. Popula. 1,102.

TIRLEY, with HAW, 34 miles S.W. from Tewkesbury. Popula. 443. TOCKINGTON (Upper), in Olveston parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles N.W. from Chipping Sodbury. Fairs, May 9, Dec. 6, for cattle and pedlary.

Tewkesbury. Popula. 138. TRESHAM, in Hawkesbury parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles S.E. by E. of Wootton-under-Edge. TUFFLEY, in St. Mary-de-Lode parish (Gloucester), and popula. included therein. 2 miles S.S.W. of Glouces

ter.

TURK-DEAN, 2 miles N. from North-
leach. Popula. 228.
TWIGWORTH, in St. Mary-de-Lode
parish (Gloucester), and popula. in-
cluded therein. 3 miles N.N.E. of
Gloucester.

TWINING, 3 miles N. from Tewkesbury.
Popula. 849.
TYTHERINGTON,

mile S.W. from Wickwar. Popula. 474. UCKINGTON, in Elmstone parish, and popula. included therein. 3 miles N.W. from Cheltenham.

ULEY, 24 miles N.W. from Horseley. Popula. 2,656.

UPLEADEN, 14 mile E. from Newent. Popula. 182.

UPTON (St. Leonard's), 2 miles S.E. from Gloucester. Popula. 895. UPTON, in Hawkesbury parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles N. from Tetbury.

WALTON-CARDIFF, 1 mile S.E. from Tewkesbury. Popula. 51.

WAPLEY with CODRINGTON, 14 mile S. from Chipping Sodbury. Popula.

307.

WASHBORN (Great), 4 miles N. from Winchcombe. Popula. 80. WELFORD, 8 miles N. from Campden. Popula. 702. WESSINGTON, in Chipping-Campden parish, and popula. included therein. mile distant South.

WESTBURY-UPON-SEVERN, 2 miles N.E. from Newnham. Popula. 1,889. Here there was a Benedictine Cell and College, founded in the year 824, and endowed with several lands by Ethelric, son of Ethelmund. Having suffered by wars and other convulsions it was rebuilt, in the year 1288, by Godfrey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester; valued at 2321. 14s. d. yearly, now worth 4,654l. Os. 10d.; granted, 35 Hen. VIII., to Sir Ralph Sadler. WESTBURY-UPON-TRYM, 2 miles N. from Bristol. Popula. 3,721. WESTERLEIGH, 3 miles S.W. from Chipping-Sodbury. Popula. 1,817. WESTCOTE, 4 miles S. from Stow. Popula. 185.

WESTON-BIRT with LASHBOROUGH, 2 miles S. from Tetbury. Popula. 198. WESTON-SUBEDGE, 1 mile N.W. from Campden. Popula. 347.

WESTON-UPON-AVON, 7 miles N. from Campden. Popula. 101.

and in 798, King Ranulph laid there the foundation of a stately Monastery; valued at 759l. 11s. 9d. yearly, now worth 15,191. 15s.; granted, 1 Edw. VI., to Sir Thomas Seymor.

WINDRUSH, 4 miles S.E. from Northleach. Popula. 317.

WINSTONE, 5 miles N.W. from Cirencester. Popula. 192.

WINSTON, in Bibury parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles N.W. from Cirencester.

WINTERBOURNE, 5 miles W. from

Chipping-Sodbury. Popula. 2,627. Fairs, June 29, Ŏct. 18, for cattle and sheep.

WITHINGTON, 6 miles N.W. from Northleach. Popula. 759.

WOODCHESTER, 2 miles N.E. from Horseley. Popula. 929. WOODMANCOTE, in North-Cerney parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant N.W.

WICKWAR, 111 miles S.W. from London.
Popula. 919. Market, Mon.; fairs,
April 5, July 2, for oxen and horses.
WIDFORD, 4 miles E. from Northleach.
Popula. 51.
WILLERSLEY, 2 miles W. from Camp-
den. Popula. 301.
WINCHCOMBE, 96 miles S.W. from
London. Popula. 2,240. Market, Sat.;
fairs, last Sat. in March, May 6, July
28, for horses, sheep and horned cattle.
Here was a Benedictine Monastery, or
Nunnery, founded, 787, by King Offa;

parish, and popula. included therein.

3 miles from Gloucester. WOOLLASTONE, 9 miles S.W. from Newnham. Popula. 884.

WOOLSTONE, 3 miles S.E. from Tewkesbury. Popula. 89.

WOOLSTROP, in Quedgley parish, and popula. included therein. WOOTTON, in St. Mary-de-Lode parish (Gloucester), and popula. included

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Is bounded on the North by Berkshire, on the East by Surrey and Sussex, on the South by the English Channel, and on the West by Dorsetshire and Wiltshire. It is about 42 miles long, and 38 broad. It is divided into 10 divisions; Alton (North and South), Andover, Basingstoke, Fawley, Kingsclere, New-Forest (East and West), Portsdown, and the Isle-of-Wight. These are again divided into 39 small hundreds. The rivers are, the Anton, Avon, Boldre-Water, Exe, Itchin, and the Tese or Test. The market-towns are, Alresford, Alton, Andover, Basingstoke, BishopsWaltham, Botley, Christchurch, Fareham, Fordingbridge, Gosport, Havant, Kingsclere, Lymington, Odiham, Petersfield, Portsmouth, Ringwood, Romsey, Southampton, Stockbridge, Winchester, Whitchurch; and Newport, Newton, Yarmouth, and Brading, in the Isle of Wight. The county returns 26 members to parliament: that is, 2 for the county, and the same for the city of Winchester, and for each of the towns of Southampton, Portsmouth, Petersfield, Stockbridge, Christchurch, Lymington, Whitchurch, and Andover; and two each for the boroughs of Newtown, Newport, and Yarmouth, in the Isle of Wight. This county has 1,628 square miles, or 1,041,920 acres, and 298 parishes. It had 29 monastic establishments, and 36 public charities. Of the parishes which this county contains, 11 have no churches at all; there are 28 parishes which have less than 100 inhabitants; 45 have no parsonagehouses, and there are 33 the parsonagehouses of which the incumbents, in a return made to parliament in 1818, represent as being unfit for them to live

in.

The poor-rates were, in 1818, 265,6241. 7s. 92d.; the number of paupers, 23,487; the rental of all the landed property of the county, according to a return made to parliament in 1818, was, 1,130,951. 13s. 34d.; the population, according to a return laid before parliament in 1821, was 283,298; the number of inhabited houses, in 1821, was 49,516; the number of uninhabited houses at the same period was 1,943;

the poor-rates bear the proportion of one-fourth of the rental; the number of paupers, compared with the number of houses, is 1 to every 2 houses; the poor-rates in 1776 were only 48,598.; the number of persons to every square mile of this county is 175; the number of acres to a person, 3; the number of acres to a house, 21. The male po. pulation, in 1821, was 138,373; the families employed in agriculture were in number 24,303; the families employed in trade or handicraft were 19,810 in number; the number of other families was 13,829; the agricultural male population 69,672; able labourers 34,836; the number of acres in this county to every able-bodied labourer is 27. It is in the PROVINCE OF CANTER BURY, in the DIOCESE OF WINCHESTER, and in the WESTERN CIRCUIT. Hampshire consists of two very distinct species of country, the one up-land, being for the greater part chalk, or of a thin, light soil, covered with flints, and bearing large crops of wheat and other grain, and feeding large and fine flocks of sheep; and the other of low-land of a strong clay, or strong mould mixed with gravel, and growing good wheat, and excellent timber in great plenty. A no inconsiderable part of the county is taken up in the New-Forest, and the forests of Bere, of Alice-Holt, and Woolmer; the 2 former on the southern extremity of the county, and the 2 latter just on the western border of it. There are several very extensive wastes in Hampshire, being estimated altogether at not less than 90,000 acres. There are also downs of very considerable extent in many parts of the county, lying high and supporting large flocks of sheep, which are generally either of the Southdown or Dorset breeds. Indeed, Hampshire contains some of the qualities of almost every other county, high-land and lowland, common fields, large enclosures, and small enclosures; barren land and very fertile land; open country and extremely wooded country; downs, heaths, and moors, forests, and chases; bleak and uninteresting countries to the eye, and some spots which are of unrivalled

beauty-all these it has, besides being in some parts very hilly, and in others very level. It wants only mines and manufactories to make it a complete epitome of England. The produce of this county is chiefly wood, in all its shapes, and cora. There are some hops about Alton, but the produce is not considerable enough to make much mention of. The cattle are of a mixed breed; great numbers of cows and oxen coming up from Devonshire, and numbers of cows coming over annually from Normandy, and the islands of Guernsey and Jersey. The sheep are mentioned above. The Hampshire hog is farfamed: it is a large, loose-limbed, blackspotted, lop-eared animal; hardy, prone to fat, and very prolific. The real horses of Hampshire are a small breed of foresters that are found in the NewForest, and in the forest of Bere, and Waltham Chase--very useful and pretty animals. The Isle-of-Wight, an island standing in the British Channel, opposite to the coast of Hampshire, at about 7 miles distance from it, is considered a part of the county. It is about 23 miles in length, and 13 iu breadth, and consists, for the most part, of a good and fertile chalky soil. ABBOTS-ANN, 24 miles S.W. from Andover. Popula. 526. ABBOTSTON.-See Itchin-Stoke. 3 miles N.N.W. from Alresford. ALDERSHOT, 8 miles N.E. from Odiham. Popula. 525.

ALLINGTON, in South-Stoneham parish, and popula. included therein. 34 miles S.W. from Upham.

ALRESFORD (Old), 1 mile N.W. from New Alresford. Popula. 445. ALRESFORD (New), seated at the head of the river Itchen. 57 miles W. from London. Popula. 1,219. Market, Thurs.; fairs, last Thursday in July, and Oct. 17, both for sheep.

ALTON, 48 miles S.W. from London. Popula. 2,499. Market, Sat.; fairs, Sat. before May 1, for sheep and lambs, Sept. 29, for cattle and toys.

AMPORT, 7 miles W. from Andover. Popula. 646.

ANDOVER, 64 miles S.W. from London.

Popula. 4,219. Market, Sat.; fairs, Fri. and Sat. after Midlent, for cheese, horses, and leather; May 13, for leather, and millinery goods; Nov. 17 and 18, for sheep, horses, leather, and cheese. A corporate town, having a bailiff, steward, recorder, 2 justices, 9 other capital burgesses, and 12 assistants. Sends 2 members to parliament. right of election is in the bailiff and a select number of burgesses; number of voters, 24.

ANN (Little), in Abbotts-Ann parish, and popula. included therein. of a mile distant E. APPLESHAW, 5 miles N.W. from Andover. Popula. 278. Fairs, May 23, a sheep-show, Fri. and Sat. before WeyHill, Nov. 4 and 5, for sheep. ARRETON, 24 miles S.E. from Newport. Popula. 1,757.

ASHE, 34 miles N.E. from Whitchurch. Popula. 114.

ASHLEY, 2 miles S. from Stockbridge. Popula. 90.

ASHMANSWORTH, 7 miles W. from Kingsclere. Popula. 196.

AVINGTON, 54 miles W. from Alresford. Popula. 195.

AWBRIDGE, in Mitchelmersh parish, and popula. included therein. 24 miles N.E. from Romsey.

BADDERLEY (North), 24 miles E. from Romsey. Popula. 286. BARTON-STACEY, 54 miles N.E. from Stockbridge. Popula. 581. Fair, July 31, for millinery goods and toys. BARTON, in South-Stoneham parish, and popula. included therein.

BASING, 1 mile N. from Basingstoke. Popula. 1,073.

BASINGSTOKE, 45 miles S.W. from

London. Popula. 3,165. Market, Wed.; fairs, Easter-Tues., for cheese and cattle; Wed. in Whit.-week, for pedlary; Sept. 28, for cattle, &c.; Oct. 11, for hiring servants, and cattle.

port. Popula. 10,972.

AMBERSHAM (North and South), two small hamlets in Steep parish, but locally situate on Ambersham common, Sussex. Popula. returned with Steep.

clere. Popula. 434.

BEAULIEU, 7 miles N.E. from Lymington. Popula. 1,206. Fairs, April 15, Sept. 4, for horses and cattle. Here was a Cistercian Abbey, founded, by

King John, in the year 1204, for thirty monks; income 4281. 16s. 84d. yearly, now worth 8576l. 4s. 2d.; granted, 30 Hen. VIII., to Thomas Wriothesley, Esq.

N.W. from

BEAWORTH, in Cheriton parish, and popula. included therein. 5 miles S.E. from Winchester. BEDHAMPTON, 1 mile Havant. Popula. 413. BEECH-HILL, in Strathfield-Say parish, and popula. included therein. 6 miles from Reading.

BENTLEY, 3 miles S.W. from Farnham.
Popula. 690.

BENTWORTH, 54 miles S.W. from Odi-
ham. Popula. 548.
BIGHTON, 3 miles E. from Alresford.
Popula. 231.
BILLINGHAM, in Carisbrooke parish,
and popula. included therein.
N. from Kingston.
BINSTEAD, 6 miles N. from Brading.
Popula. 225.

1 mile

BINSTED, 3 miles N.E. from Alton. Popula. 946.

BISHOPS-STOKE, 44 miles S. from Winchester. Popula. 1,007. BISHOPS-SUTTON, 2 miles S. from Alresford. Popula. 474. Fairs, TrinityTues., for toys, Nov. 6, a pedling fair. BISHOPS-WALTHAM, 72 miles S.W. from London. Popula. 2,126. BISTERN, 24 miles S. from Ringwood.See Burley.

BITTERN, in South Stoneham parish, and popula. included therein. 14 mile N.E. from Southampton.

Nov. 13, cattle. Market, every other
Monday.

BOWCOMB, in Carisbrooke parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant South.

BRADING, 99 miles S.W. from London. Popula. 2,023. Fairs, May 12, Oct. 2,

toys. BRADLEY, 64 miles N.E. from Whitechurch. Popula. 100.

BRAMDEAN, 34 miles S. from Alresford. Popula. 232.

BRAMLEY, 5 miles N. from Basingstoke. Popula. 455.

BRAMSBURY, in Barton-Stacey parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant N.N.W.

BRAMSHAW, 5 miles from Lyndhurst. Popula. 726.

BRAMSHILL (Great), in Eversley parish, and popula. included therein. 14 mile distant South.

BRAMSHILL (Little), in Eversley parish,

and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant South.

BRAMSHOTT, 7 mile S.E. from Alton. Popula. 1,006. BREAMORE, miles N. from Fordingbridge. Popula. 549. Here was an Augustine Monastery, founded, by Baldwin de Reveriis, and his uncle Hugh, in the reign of Hen. I.; valued at 2001. 5s. 14d. yearly, now worth, 40051. 2s. 6d.; granted, 28 Hen. VIII., to Henry, Marquis of Exeter. BRIGHTMINSTONE, or BADMINSTONE, in Fawley parish, and popula. included therein. of a mile distant South.

field. Popula. 249.

Popula. 686.

Lymington. Popula. 818.

BONCHURCH, 8 miles S.E. from Newport. Popula. 122.

BORDEAN, in East Meon parish, and popula. included therein. 1 mile distant N.E.

BOSSINGTON, 3 miles S. from Stock

bridge. Popula. 75.

BOTLEY, 76 miles S.W. from Lon

don. Popula. 690. Fairs, Feb. 20, May 28, cheese, July 23, Aug. 20,

Popula. 123.

BROUGHTON, with the Tything of
FRENCH-MOOR, 3 miles W. from

Stockbridge. Popula. 821. Fair, first
Mon. in July, for toys.

BRUSHFIELD, in Mitchelmersh parish, and popula. included therein. 2 miles distant S. E.

BULLINGTON, 8 miles N.E. from Stockbridge. Popula. 160.

BURE, in Christchurch parish, and po pula. included therein.

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