HAVANT, a market-town of Hampshire, in the hundred of Bosmere and division of Portstown, sixty-six miles from London, on the borders of Sussex, and opposite to the Isle of Hayling. Its church is a venerable remnant of architecture. There is a good market for all kinds of grain on Saturday. The population amounted in 1801 to 1670, in 1811 to 1824, in 1821 to 2099, and in 1831 to 2083.