PENTON-MEWSEY, a parish in the hundred of
ANDOVER, Andover division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
2 miles (N.,W.by W.) from Andover, containing
202 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the
archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, rated in the
king's books at £9. 12. 8., and in the patronage of
the Rev. E. Fulham. The church is dedicated to the
Holy Trinity. A school-room was erected in 1815, by
subscription, to which £6 a year, the bequest of John
Read, in 1651, has been added, in support of a schoolmistress,
who instructs about forty children.