BOLDRE, a parish partly in the eastern division of the hundred of NEW-FOREST, New Forest (East) division, and partly in the hundred of CHRiSTCHVRCH.New Forest (West) division, of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 2 miles (N.) from Lymington, containing, with the hamlets of Sway and Walhampton, 2180 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Lymington annexed, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £12, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of J. P. Shrubb, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. John. There is a place of worship for Particular Baptists. A school for instructing and clothing twenty poor boys and twenty girls was founded at Pilley, in this parish, by the Rev. William Gilpin, vicar of Boldre, who erected the school-house, with dwellings for a master and a mistress, and, in 1803, endowed the school with the profits of his literary publications, viz., " The Lives of Bernard Gilpin, Archbishop Cranmer, Bishop Latimer," " Picturesque Tours through the New Forest, and other parts of England," " Illustrations of the New Testament," " Explanation of the Church Catechism," &c. The school is under the superintendence of special visitors.