BEVOIS, a village in Hants; on the river Itchin, 2 miles N of Southampton. It stands on the estate of Bevois Mount; and has a post office of the name of Bevois Hill, under Southampton. Bevois Mount contained the castle and the tomb of Sir Bevis of Hampton; was purchased, in the early part of last century, by the great Earl of Peterborough; was, in his time, a resort of Pope and Swift; and became afterwards the residence of the poet Sotheby,-who san it in the sonnet entitled "Farewell to Bevois Mount."

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