BURGHCLERE, a parish in the hundred of EVINGAR,
Kingsclere division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
1 miles (N.) from Whitchurch, containing, with
Earlston, which is in Kingsclere hundred, 763 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, with the perpetual curacy
of Newtown annexed, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the
incumbent, rated in the king's books at £ 30, and in the
patronage of the Earl of Carnarvon. The church is
dedicated to All Saints. The wills proved in the course
of the year are, at the close of it, deposited in the
bishop's registry. The village lies at the base of a lofty
eminence, the summit of which, now exhibiting vestiges
of a military encampment, was formerly crowned by a
beacon. A house and school-room are appropriated
rent-free, by the Earl of Carnarvon, for the instruction
of children, and his lordship allows £20 a year to the
schoolmistress, who receives an additional annuity of
£10, the bequest of Elizabeth Cornwallis, in 1721.