ALTON, a town in Hampshire, seated on the river Wey; W. Long. 0. 46. N. Lat. 51. 5. It is governed by a constable, is indifferently built, being chiefly laid out in one pretty broad street, and contained 2316 inhabitants in 1811. 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 serges de Nismes; and round the town is a large plantation of hops.