NITON, a parish in the liberty of EAST-MEDINA, Isle of Wight division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 8 miles (E.) from Newport, containing 443 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, united to the vicarage of Godshill, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £20. 7. 1. The church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, is a very ancient structure; on the south side of it, without the wall of the cemetery, is a cross raised upon steps with a basin on the top, supposed to have been used anciently as a baptismalfont. Richard Weecks, in 1784, bequeathed £150, which, with subsequent gifts, produces an annual income of £10, for teaching the children of the parish to read.