Farlington, Hampshire

Description
Farlington, a parish in Hants, on Langston harbour, 2 miles W of Havant, and 2 from Cosham station on the L. & S.W.R. It includes the village of Purbrook and the greater part of what is now called Waterlooville. Post town, Havant; money order and telegraph office, Bedhampton. Acreage, 2389 of land and 601 of foreshore and water; population of the civil parish, 1352; of the ecclesiastical, 974. Farlington Redoubt is in this parish, and is well mounted with guns. The waterworks which supply Portsmouth are in this parish. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; net value, c£322 with residence. The church is Early English, has a fine east window, and curious cross-legged effigies, and is good; it was well restored in 1874-75. The incumbency of St John's, Purbrook, is a separate benefice.