FARLINGTON, a parish in the hundred of PORTSDOWN,
Portsdown division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
2 miles (W. by S.) from Havant, containing,
with the extra-parochial liberty of Mudlands, 553 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at
£9.13.4., and in the patronage of Edward Tew Richards,
Esq. The church,among other recent improvements,
has received two hundred and forty-seven free sittings,
the Incorporated Society for the enlargement of churches
and chapels having granted £250 towards defraying the
expense. An enclosure, called Mudlauds, once covered
by the sea, -was afterwards subject to occasional inundations,
until additional precautions were taken after a
great storm in November, 1824. A fine spring rises
in the adjoining marshes, and flows into cisterns,
from which the water is forced by a steam-engine,
about half a mile up the slope, towards Portsdown, into
a larger reservoir, whence the town of Portsmpufch,
about six miles distant, is supplied.