Description
Dibden, a parish and a liberty in Hants. The parish lies on Southampton Water, 4 miles from Totton station on the L. & S.W.R. Post town, Southampton via Hythe; money order and telegraph office, Hythe. Acreage, 2230 ; population, 621. The manor is mentioned in Domesday book as Depedene, and had then a saltern and a fishery. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; value, £300 with residence. The church is very ancient; it was restored in 1874 and again in 1882.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
