Farlington was a small rural community for the majority of its existence, being part of an ancient manor and parish that also included nearby Crookhorn and Stakes (Frendstaple), places still outside the City boundary.

[4] Alice only held the manor for a short time, for by 1330 it had come into the king's hands, and was granted to John Montgomerie and his wife Rose for life.

After hostilities ceased, the War Office held control of the site and it was not released until 1929 when it was bought by Portsmouth City Council.

The council then sold on the land for private housing development, eventually leading to the end of Farlington as a distinct community.

[6] However, this camp was demolished by 1867 and the area gradually developed into a full fort to protect the city from a possible French invasion.

[7] The redoubt was demolished after the Second World War when the site was excavated as a quarry and later developed as an underground gas storage area and aggregate recycling facility.

[2] Farlington is part of the Portsmouth North parliamentary constituency, currently represented in the House of Commons by Penny Mordaunt of the Conservative Party.

[17] While some of the 13th century masonry has survived, the majority of the current St. Andrew's Church is the result of restorations and alterations carried out by George Edmund Street between 1872 and 1875.

Street's restoration, for which the design was carried out in 1858, created a delightful small Victorian village church ... rich in detail.

[22] Designed by the architect Randoll Blacking of the firm Paget and Seeley, the church was built by S. Salter and Company.

[23] The marshes are a 119.7-hectare (296-acre) Local Nature Reserve, owned by Portsmouth City Council and managed by the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust.

[24] A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), the marshes now host a vast number of migratory, overwintering wildfowl, including Brent Geese, Wigeons, Teals, Avocets, Redshanks and Dunlins.

[26] Notable persons connected to Farlington include Thomas Pounde (29 May 1539 – 5 March 1614), an English Jesuit lay brother.

After some thirty years spent in Elizabethan prisons for his Catholic faith, he is said to have died in the same room of the family house where he was born.

An early 20th-century historian thought "The present [1905] Belmont Castle, on Portsdown Hill, [was] probably built on or near the site of the old house.