Bishop's Waltham — Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Bishop's Waltham, a town of Hampshire, $9\frac{1}{2}$ miles SE. of Winchester. It has been immemorially the property of the see of Winchester. There are remains of a castle, built in 1135 by Bishop Henry de Blois, and reduced to ruins during the civil wars of the 17th century. Pop. of parish, 3886.