TICHFIELD, (Hampshire) to the E. of Southampton, had an abbey, and now has a ch. sc. It has a bridge over the r. Alre, and
a good road below, called Tichfield-Bay, near the mouth of Southampton-Bay, where it receives the Hamble. K. Hen. VIII.
created Sir Tho. Wriothesley, who was his secretary of state, Ld. Wriothesley of Tichfield, which barony descended to his
successos, the Es. of Southampton, who made it their chief seat. It went afterwards by marriage to Edmund E. of
Ganesborough; who dying without issue-male, the manor fell to his 2 daughters, who married the late Ds. of Portland and
Beaufort.