ROPLEY, a parish in the hundred of BISHOP'S-SUTTON, Alton (North) division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 4 miles (E.) from New Alresford, containing 730 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Bishop's Sutton, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. Ropley is within the jurisdiction of the Cheyney Court held at Winchester every Thursday, for the recovery of debts to any amount.