HAMBLE-en-le-RICE, a parish, in the hundred of
MANSBRIDGE, Fawley division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
4 miles (S.E.) from Southampton, containing
421 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy
with the vicarage of Hound, in the archdeaconry and
diocese of Winchester, endowed with £1000 royal bounty.
The church is dedicated to St. Andrew. The parish
is bounded on the south by Southampton water. An
alien priory of Cistercian monks, a cell to the abbey
of Tirone, in France, dedicated to St. Andrew, was
founded here in the time of Henry Blois, Bishop of
Winchester; at the suppression, it was granted to New
College, Oxford.