EXBURY, a parish in New Forest district, Hants; at the mouth of the river Beanlieu, nearly opposite Cowes, 4 miles SW of Fawley, and 7½ ENE of Lymington r. station. It includes the tything of Lepe, and has a post office under Southampton. Acres, 3, 066; of which 660 are water. Real property, £2, 568. Pop., 573. Houses, 69. Exbury House is the seat of the Mitfords. White brick-clay is found. The living is a vicarage, under the rectory of Fawley, in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £325. Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is a recent structure of white brick; and contains a monument to Mitford the historian.

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