Hampshire, Hants, a maritime county of S. England, fronting the English Channel between Dorset on the W. and Sussex on the E.; in the NE. are the “rolling Downs,” affording excellent sheep pasturage, while the SW. is largely occupied by the New Forest; the Test, Itchen, and Avon are principal rivers flowing to the S.; besides the usual cereals, hops are raised, while Hampshire bacon and honey are celebrated; Southampton, Portsmouth, and Gosport are the chief trading and manufacturing towns.
Population (circa 1900) given as 690,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Hampole, Richard Rolle * Hampstead