WOODHAY (EAST), a parish in the hundred of
EVINGAR, Kingsclere division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
10 miles (N. N. W.) from Whitchurch, containing
1206 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in
the peculiar jurisdiction' the Incumbent, rated in the
king's books at £21. 6. Of., and in the patronage of the
Bishop of Winchester. The church, dedicated to St.
Martin, was rebuilt at the expense of- the parishioners,
in 1823, and contains monuments to Bishops Kenn and
Louth, who held the living. Ten children are taught to
read for £8 a year, the interest of a bequest from the
Rev. Joshua Wakefield, in 1753. A National school
for about one hundred children is supported by voluntary
contributions. Here was formerly a palace belonging
to the Bishops of Winchester. Woodhay is
within the jurisdiction of the Cheyney Court held at
Winchester every Thursday, for the recovery of debts
to any amount.