HAVANT, a market town, Hampshire, England, 67 m. S.W. from London by rail. Pop. of urban district (1931) 4,264. Warb lington, I m. S.E. (pop. [1931] 4,320) has a church with traces of pre-Norman work, and some remains of a Tudor castle. Havant lies near the head of Langstone harbour. The church of St. Faith, largely rebuilt in 1875, retains some Early English work. There are breweries and tanneries. The island of Hayling, which lies off the coast, 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, a seaside resort, is fine Early English.