HAVANT  , a

market-town in the Fareham parliamentary division of Hampshire, England, 67 m . S.W. from London by the London & South Western and the London, Brighton & South Coast railways . Pop. of urban district (tool), 3837• The urban district of Warblington, 1 m . S.E . (pop . 3639), has a fine church, Norman and later, with traces of pre-Norman work, and some remains of a Tudor castle . Havant lies in a flat coastal district, near the head of Langstone Harbour, a wide shallow inlet of the English Channel . The church of St Faith was largely rebuilt in 1875, but retains some good Early English work . There are breweries and tanneries, and the manufacture of parchment is carried on . Off the mainland near Havant lies Hayling, a flat island of irregular form lying between the harbours of Langstone and Chichester . It measures 4 M. in length from N. to S., and is nearly the same in breadth at the south, but the breadth generally is about i m . It is well wooded and fertile .

A railway serves the

village of South Hayling, which is in some favour as a seaside resort, having a wide sandy beach and good golf links . The island was in the possession of successive religious bodies from the Conquest (when it was given to the Benedictines of Jumieges, near .Rouen), until the Dissolution . The church of South Hayling is a fine Early English building .