HOLYBOURNE, a village and a parish in Alton district, Hants. The village stands on the river Wey, 2 miles NE of Alton r. station; and has a post office under Alton.—The parish includes also the tything of Neatham. Acres, 2, 564. Real property, £3, 996. Pop., 6 43. Houses, 127. The property is divided among a few. The manor belongs to Lord Sherborne. Holybourne Lodge is a chief residence. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Winchester. Value, £111. Patrons, the Dean and Chapter of Winchester. The church is old but good. An endowed school has £184 a year, and serves, in certain proportions, for the parishes of Holybourne, Alton, Binstead, and Froyle.

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