HAMBLEDON, a parish partly in the hundred of
MEON-STOKE, but chiefly in the hundred of HAMBLEDON,
Portsdown division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
6 miles (E.S.E.) from Bishop's Waltham, comprising
the tythings of Hambledon, Chidden, Denmead,
Earvils, and Glidden, and containing 1886 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, rated in the king's books
at £26. 19. 2., in the peculiar jurisdiction of the vi-
,car, and in the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester.
The church, dedicated,to St. Peter, is partly in the
early, and partly in the later, style of English architecture.
Fairs for horses are held on February 18th,
the -first Tuesday in May, and October 22nd. Windmilldown,
in this parish, is noted as being frequented by
the cricket-players of Hampshire and the neighbouring
counties.