LONGPARISH, a parish in the hundred of WHERWELL,
Andover division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
3 miles (S. W.) from Whitchurch, containing
693 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage,
in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, rated
in the king's books at £8, endowed with £200 private
benefaction, and £300 parliamentary grant, and in the
patronage of the Rev. H. Woodcock, D. D. The church
is dedicated to St. Nicholas. There is a place of worship
for Baptists. The river Test runs through the
parish. A trifling rent-charge, the gift of Thomas Baker,
in 1696, is applied in teaching poor children.