CHERITON, a parish in the hundred of FAWLEY,
Fawley division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 2§
miles (S. by W.) from New Alresford, containing, with
the tything of Beaworth, 599 inhabitants. The living is
a rectory, with the perpetual curacies of Kilmeston and
Titchbourn annexed, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the
incumbent, rated in the king's books at £66. 2.6., and
in the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester. The
church is dedicated to St. Michael. A battle was
fought here in the reign of Charles I., called Alresford
fight. The parish is within the jurisdiction of the
Cheyney Court held at Winchester every Thursday, for
the recovery of debts to any amount. Twenty poor
children are instructed by a schoolmistress, for £12
per annum, the produce of a bequest by the Rev. Morgan
Jones.