KILMESTON, a parish in the hundred of FAWLEY,
Fawley division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 4
miles (S.) from New Alresford, containing 212 inhabitants.
The living is a perpetual curacy, with the rectory
of Cheriton, in the peculiar jurisdiction of the incumbent.
Eight poor children are instructed for a trifling sum
left by Dame Mary Sadler. Kilmeston is within the
jurisdiction of the Cheyney Court held at Winchester
every Thursday, for the recovery of debts to any
amount.