a town of the hundred of that name, in the division of Portslade, in Hampshire, seventy-eight miles from London. The parish is very extensive, and includes a good roadstead for vessels in the bay of that name, near the mouth of Southampton water. Near to it are the remains of a Cistercian abbey. There is a market on Saturday. The inhabitants amounted in 1821 to 3528, and in 1831 to 3712.