ALTON, a town in Hampshire, seated on the river Wey; W. Long. 0. 46. N. Lat. 51. 5. It is governed by a constable; and consists of about 300 houses, indifferently built, chiefly laid out in one pretty broad street. It has one church, a Presbyterian, and a Quaker meeting, a famous free school, a large manufacture of plain and figured baragons, ribbed druggets, and ferges de Nimes; and round the town is a large plantation of hops.