Havant, Hampshire

Description
Havant, a small town and a parish in Hants. The town stands on Langstone harbour, and has stations on the L.B. & S.C.R. and L. & S.W.R., 66 miles from London, and a post, money order, and telegraph office. It was known at Domesday as Havehunte; consists of four streets in cruciform arrangement, and named after the cardinal points; and communicates with Hayling Island, across the Langstone Channel, by a swing bridge. There are a town-hall, a bank, and several good inns. The extensive waterworks and pumping station, the property of the Portsmouth Corporation, which supplies the whole of the town of Portsmouth with water, is at Havant. A weekly market is held on Tuesday, and fairs are held on 22 June and 17 Oct. Tanning, malting, brewing, parchment-making, and a trade in flour are carried on. Acreage of the civil parish, 2786; population, 3474; of the ecclesiastical, 3066. The manor belonged anciently to the monks of Winchester. Leigh Park: is a chief residence. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £200 with residence. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church contains portions of all periods from Norman to Late Perpendicular; is cruciform, with a central tower; and contains an effigies of Thomas Aylward, the secretary of William of Wykeham. A very handsome Roman Catholic church was erected in 1874-75. There is a Congregational chapel. The rectory of Redhill is a separate benefice.