CANDOVER (PRESTON), a parish in the hundred of BERMONDSPIT, Basingstoke division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 6 miles (N. by E.) from New Alresford, containing 472 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, with the perpetual curacy of Nutley annexed, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £18, endowed with £300 private benefaction, and £ 200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Winchester, The church is dedicated to St. Mary. Thomas Hall, in 1772, bequeathed £4. 4. per annum for the instruction of six poor children.