NURSLING, otherwise NUTSHALLING, a parish in the hundred of BUDDLESGATE, Fawley division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 3 miles (S.) from Romsey, containing 637 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, rated in the king's books at £13. 11. 10., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Winchester. The church has a tower surmounted by a wooden spire. There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists. The Andover canal runs through the parish. A Sunday school is partly supported with £1. 10. per annum, the bequest of the Rev. Robert Cramer. Nursling is within the jurisdiction of the Cheyney Court held at Winchester every Thursday, for the recovery of debts to any amount. Grove House, formerly a hunting-seat which belonged to Queen Elizabeth, has been converted into a private asylum for lunatics.