WORTHY (KING'S), a parish partly in the hundred
of MITCHELDEVER, Basingstoke division, but
chiefly in the hundred of BARTON-STACEY, Andover
division, of the county of SOUTHAMPTON, 2 miles
(N, N. E.) from Winchester, containing, with the tything
of Abbot's Worthy, 344 inhabitants. The living is a
rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Winchester,
rated in the king's books at £22. 12. 6., and in the
patronage of Sir Thomas Baring, Bart. The church is
dedicated to St. Mary.