Google military history of Eling and found a very long article including:-
Totton is the most populous part of Eling onaccount of its saw and flour-mills, chemical manureworks, brewery, and tar distilling and creosotingworks. A bone-mill and soap manufactory formerlyexisted there, and a considerable trade, much reducedsince the opening of the railway, was carried on incoal, timber and corn. There were also magazinesof military stores, and a large shipbuilding establishment, now removed to Redbridge. A fair for cattletakes place at Eling on 5 July. On the banks of theTest are about 50 acres of excellent salt-marsh, overwhich the inhabitants of Eling enjoy rights of common,except from the second Monday after Easter until 14August, when only seven persons may feed one horseeach. It is then closed for about a month until thegrass has been cut and carried. Henry I crossed toNormandy from Eling (Eilling) and King's pleas wereheld there in his reign
From: 'Parishes: Eling', A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4 (1911), pp. 546-558. URL:
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=56879&strquery=MAGAZINES Date accessed: 28 March 2012.
