LONGSTOCK, a parish in Stockbridge district, Hants; on the river Test or Anton, and on the Andover railway, 1 mile N of Stockbridge. It has a post office under Winchester. Acres, 2,962. Real property, £3,393. Pop., 445. Houses, 104. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Lady Barker Mill. An eminence here is called Longstock hill. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £315.* Patron, Lady B. Mill. The church is ancient, and was repaired in 1846. There are a Primitive Methodist chapel, and charities £15.

(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))