HOLYBOURNE, a parish in the hundred of ALTON,
Alton (North) division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
1 mile (N. B.) from Alton, containing 482
inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, and in the patronage
of the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. The
church is dedicated to the Holy Rood. Thomas Andrews,
in 1719, devised estates for the erection and support of
a free school for all the children of the parish, for twelve
of Alton, five of Binsted, and three of Froyle, and for
apprenticing them; the net annual income is nearly
£200, and the number receiving instruction is about
eighty, of whom twenty are clothed.