BARTON-STACEY, a tything, a parish, and a hundred in Hants. The tything lies on a headstream of the Anton river, and on the line of the Roman road to Winchester, 4 ½. miles E of the Andover railway, and 5½ SE of Andover; and has a post office under Winchester, and a fair on 31 July. The parish includes also the townships of Bransbury, Drayton, and Newton-Stacey. Acres, 4,943. Real property, £5,923. Pop., 516. Houses, 108. The property is divided among a few. A strong ancient entrenchment occurs at Bransbury. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £266.* Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. The church is early English and cruciform; and has a fine perpendicular tower. There are a Wesleyan chapel, and charities £44. The hundred is conterminate with the parish.

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