FAWLEY, a parish partly in the hundred of REDBRIDGE,
comprising the tythings of Brightminstone and
Stone, but chiefly in that part of the hundred of BISHOPS-WALTHAM
which is in the New Forest (East) division
of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 6 miles (S. S. E.) from
Southampton, containing 1684 inhabitants. The living is
a rectory, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the incumbent,
rated in the king's books at £,34. 13. 6,, and in the
patronage of the Bishop of Winchester. The church
is dedicated to All Saints; in the windows are some
curious specimens of painted glass. At Exbury, in this
parish, is1 a chapel of ease. There is a place of worship
for Wesleyan Methodists. The parish is bounded on the
east by the Southampton water.