STEEP, a parish in the hundred of EAST-MEON,
Alton (South) division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON,
1 mile (N.) from Petersfield, containing, with the tythings
of [North Ambersham and South Ambersham,
808 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, annexed
to the vicarage of East Meon, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Winchester. Steep is within the jurisdiction
of the Cheyney Court held at Winchester every
Thursday, for the recovery of debts to any amount.