DROXFORD, a parish in that part of the hundred
of BISHOPS-WALTHAM which is in the Portsdown division
of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 3 miles (E. by N.)
from Bishop's Waltham, containing 1410 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the
Incumbent, rated in the king's books at £17 19. 4,
and in the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester. The
church, dedicated to St. Mary, and All Saints, is a curious
specimen of early Norman architecture. The parish
is within the jurisdiction of the Cheyney Court held at
Winchester every Thursday, for the recovery of debts
to any amount.