HECKFIELD, a parish in the hundred of HOLDSHOTT, Basingstoke division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, comprising the chapelry of Mattingley, and the tythings of Heckfield, Holdshott, and the greater portion of Hazely Heath, and containing, with the whole of Hazely Heath, 1149 inhabitants, of which number, 636 are in the tything of Heckfield, 3 miles (N.W. by W.) from Hartford-Bridge. The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £16. 12. 11., and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of New College, Oxford. The church is dedicated to St. Michael. A fair is held on Good Friday. The rivers Loddon and Blackwater skirt this parish on the north-west.