CRUX-EASTON, a parish in the hundred of PASTROW,
Kingsclere division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
65 miles (N.N.W.) from Whitchurch, containing
74 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's
books at £12. 12. 6., and in the patronage of R. G.
Temple, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Michael.
There is also a chapel of ease, called New chapel. Here
was the celebrated grotto constructed by nine sisters,
daughters of Edward Lisle, Esq., and commemorated
by Pope; it has. been suffered to go to ruin, the shell
only remaining.