HAMPSHIRE. (soUTH DIVISlON.) NEJV FOREST UNION comprises the eight large parishes of Eling, Bram­ s7£aw, JJ.iinstead, Lynrlhurst, Beaulieu, Exbury, Fawley, and· Dibden, extending westward, from Southampton "\Vater, and northward from the Solent Sea, into the heart of the New Forest, of which it comprises the largest and most interesting portion. It is all in the Lymington and New Forest Division of South Hants, except part of Brnmshaw parish, which is in Wiltshire. It conta.ins 13,042 souls, and about 60,000 acres of land; but its Superintendent Registrar's District includes also several extensive extra parochial walks, &c., in the Ne'v Forest, in which are 18,439 acres and 498 inhabitants, 1'!Welling the total to about 78,000 acres and 13,540 souls, as shewn in the follo~g enumerati<?n of the pru.ishes, &c., with the~ territorial extent, their population m 1851, and therr rateable annual value, as asses­ sed to the county rates :..._ • Rental Rental Fawley District. AcREs. PoP. Eling District. £. .ACRES. PoP. £. 1177 ~ling parish ........ 18,259 18,000 5852 Beaulieu parish •••••• 4000 9480 Denny walk, part of•• 20 3,399 • Exbury parish •••••• 1780 2406 384 • 487 Ashurst walk . •••.••• 2,700 • • Dibden parish •••••• 2741 2852 • • 6360 1801 Irons Hill walk .•.••• •• 1,830 • • Fawley parish • ••••• 6951 Lyndhurst District. Calshot Cast]Jl, ex. p. 50 0 I 56 Brarnshaw parish ..•. •1,106 3,560 760 Denny Lodge walk No !\fan's Land and (part of) ex. p. ... 83 4765 206 Bramble Hill .••••• 620 173 Roughdown & Ipers- 26 ' . b . 1 ~ Eyeworth walk .•••.• 6 18,15 8 nltge, ex;;ra-pa.r ••• 85 • I 29 Minstead parish •••• 2,700 12,800 1054 Lyndhnrst parish •••• 4,025 3,618 1527 "'The Rental of only the Hants part 0 f inserted here. Rhinefield, &c., ex. p. • • 3,310 . • • Bramshaw parish is ~ Beanlien and Exbury parishes are in Beaulieu Liberty; Dibden, Fawley, Calshot Castle, Ipersbridge, andRoughdown are inDibdenLiberty; and Eling, Lyndhurst, 1\-Iinstead, Irons Hill, Rhinefield, and the Hampshire part of Brarnshaw parish are in Redbridge Hun­ dred. Beaulieu, Exbury, Dibden, and Fawley parishes are in Southampton Polling Dis.. trict; and Lyndhurst, Eling, Brarnshaw, and 1\-Iinstead parishes are in Romsey Polling District. They ru:e all in Southampton County Court District. (See page 151.) NEW FOREST UNION "\VORKHOUSE, is in Eling parish, near Lynd­ hurst road Station, and the entrance to the Forest. It has room for upwards of 200 inmates, and had as many as 173 in 1841, and 183 in 1851, when the census was taken. Attached to it are about 15 acres of land, cultivated by tho paupers. About njne acres were granted by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests1 at the nominal rent of sixpence per acre. The total expenditure of the Union for the half-year ending Lady-day, 1858, was £4516, including £488 paid for county and IJOlice rates. The Board of Guardians meets at the Workhouse every Monday. Edwd. Coxwell, Esq., of Southampton, is the Union Olerk and Superintendent Regis~ trar; and the Rev. Ma1·k Cooper is the chaplain. :Mr. Wm. and Mrs. Rowson are master and matron of the Workhouse; Mr. "\Vm. Fdk. a.nd Mrs. Savage ru.·a teachers of the schools; and Thos. Whitehorn is the porter. The RELIEVING OFFICERS and Registrars of Births and Deaths are 'Vm. Hy. Pike. for Eling Dis· trict; Isaac Fielder, for Lyndhurst District; and Fredk. Fry, for Fawley District. Mr. Wm. Hy. Pike is also Registrar of Marriages for the whole union. The SuRGEONS are Messrs. Wm. Spear, F. R. Smjth, Geo. Nunn, Sa.ml. Churchi11, a.nd Edward Chinery. NEW FOREST, the largest of the Royal Forests, is already noticed at pages 49 and 50. It extends into Lymington and Ringwood Unions, and comprises about 90,000 acres, of which about 60,000 acres belong to the Crown, and are mostly extra-parochial. It is divided into nine Bailiwicks andfijteen Walks, which are noticed at subsequent pages, in the parishes where they are situated. ELING is a lru.·ge a.nd well-built village, near Eling Junction Station, about five miLs "\V. by N. of Southampton, near the western head of Southampton Water, where it and the adjacent villages of Totton, Rumbridge, Redbridge, and Millbrook, form almost a continuous suburb, ranging round the head of the estuary, where there are coal and timber wharves, shipyards, a.nd breweries; and where the river Test and the Andover Canal terminate in the tidal waters, at Redbridge, -where the f'ailway crosses from Southampton to Weymouth, a.nd a new railway is about to b6 extended from it ;u.o;r:t.b.ward to Andover. ELING PARISH ex.tenda over about .