TITCHFIELD, a parish in the hundred of TITCHFIELD, Portsdown division of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 8 miles (W.) from Fareham, containing 3528 inhabitants. This is a small well-built town, pleasantly situated at themouth of Southampton water, near the Titchfield river, by means of which small vessels can approach the town. A customary corn market is held on Friday; and fairs are on the Saturday fortnight before Lady-day; May 14th; Sept. 25th for hiring servants; and on the Saturday fortnight before Dec, 21. A court-baron is held twice a year, and a court Jeet annually, the latter having jurisdiction in all pleas of debt under 40s, The living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester, rated hj the king's books at £6. 17. Sv and in the patronage of H. P. Delme, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Peter. There is a place of worship for Independents. Twelve poor boys and twelve poor girls are educated, and the former annually clothed, from funds arising out of the rental of land and premises demised, in 1620, by Henry, Earl of Southampton, for charitable uses. In 1703, Richard Godwin bequeathed a rent-charge of £4 for teaching twelve poor children. At a short distance north of the town are the remains of Titchfield House, erected by the first Earl of Southampton, on the site and with the materials of an abbey for Premonstratensian canons, founded by Peter de Rupibus, in 1231, the revenue of which, at the suppression, was valued at £280.19.10. In this mansion Charles I. was concealed after his escape from Hampton Court, in 1647, and again previously to resigning himself to Col. Hammond, who conducted him to Carisbrooke castle, in the Isle of Wight. The building is now in a state of ruin, the entrance gateway being the principal part standing: the old stables yet remain, and are worthy of notice. Titchfield confers the title of marquis on the family of Bentinck.