Selborne

Selborne, a pleasant Hampshire parish of 12 sq. m. and 1200 inhabitants, 5 miles SSE. of Alton station and 20 E. of Winchester. Gilbert White (q.v., 1720-93) has made it for ever famous by his Natural History of Selborne (1789). 'The Wakes,' the ivied house where he was born and died, still stands, though added to; the church, where he lies, was restored in 1877. Nothing remains of an Augustinian priory (1232).