CATHERINGTON, a parish in the hundred of FINCH-DEAN, Alton (South) division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 6 miles (S. W. by S.) from Petersfield, containing 798 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £9. 5. 10., and in the patronage of the Rev. Joseph Hutchinson. The church is dedicated to St. Catherine. The parish is within the jurisdiction of the Cheyney Court held at Winchester every Thursday, for the recovery of debts to any amount. William Appleford, porter of St. Mary's College, Winchester, founded a school in 1695, and, endowed it with lands in the parish of Drayton, producing at present £15 per annum, for which forty-five children of both sexes are instructed.