It appears in a document of the year 1250, when Henry III gave a moiety (legally fixed half share) of the land there to Roger de Merlay.

The manor may be included under the Domesday Book of 1086's entry of Cosham; both were within decades confirmed as in Farlington parish.

To the north of the road immediately past the New Inn is the Drayton building estate, on which new villas are rising steadily.

148-151[3]The New Inn survives and is protected under UK law in the initial category (grade II listing).

[7] The foundation stone was laid on 22 April 1930, by Lady Heath Harrison, the Bishop of Portsmouth attending.