Lyss
LYSS, a parish, in the hundred of Odiham, union of Petersfield, Petersfield and N. divisions of the county of Southampton, 3¾ miles (N. N. E.) from Petersfield; containing 656 inhabitants. The parish includes the tythings of Lyss-Abbass and Lyss-Turney, and comprises 3678 acres, of which 1230 are common or waste land. The living is a perpetual curacy; net income, £96; patrons and impropriators, the family of Wellesley. The chapel is dedicated to St. Peter.
Transcribed from A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858.