BITTERN, a tything in that part of the parish of
SOUTH-STONEHAM which is in the hundred of MANSBRIDGE,
Fawley division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
2 miles (N.E.) from Southampton. The population
is returned with the parish. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. Bittern is within the
jurisdiction of the Cheyney Court held at Winchester
every Thursday, for the recovery of debts to any amount.
This was the site of the Roman station Clausentum: a
variety of Roman relics has been found.