MILTON, a parish in the hundred of CHRISTCHURCH, New Forest (West) division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 4 miles (E. by N.) from Christchurch, containing 702 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, endowed with £200 private benefaction, £600 royal bounty, and £ 1200 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Provost and Fellows of Queen's College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Mary Magdalene. There is a place of worship for Independents" The parish is bounded on the south by Christchurch bay, where there is a preventive station.