Binstead or Binsted, a parish in Hants. The parish lies 2 miles SSW of Bentley station on the L. & S.W.R., and 4 NE by E of Alton; contains the hamlets of Issington, Week, Westcote, and Wheatley; and has a post office under Alton; money order and telegraph office, Bentley. Acreage, 6920 ; population of the civil parish, 1331; of the ecclesiastical with Kingsley, 1341. The living is a vicarage, united with the vicarage of Kingsley, in the diocese of Winchester; gross united value, £370 with residence. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. The church is ancient, has a low embattled tower and a spire, and contains several monuments. There are Primitive Methodist and Wesleyan chapels.
