COMPTON, a parish in Winchester district, Hants; on the river Itchen and the Southwestern railway, 2½ miles SSW of Winchester. It has a post office under Winchester. Acres, 2, 099. Real property, £5, 369. Pop., 279. Houses, 53. The property is divided among a few. A camp of observation, with a battery, was raised on Compton Down, by Cromwell, preliminary to his siege of Winchester. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester. Value, 329.* Patron, the Bishop of Winchester. The church is partly Norman, and has a rich Norman doorway. The churchyard contains the ashes of Dr. Huntingford, bishop of Hereford and warden of Winchester college; who commenced his career as curate of Compton. Charities, £9.

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