Andover

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Andover
Hampshire
SU365458
51.13N 1.28W : lat'n'long
refce: HANTSLOC.t

old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants XXIII.8

Andover
otherwise: andeferas, 955-14; andeferan, 962; andeferan; andefron; andeferon, 994

refce: Coates 1989
ANDOVER
The name appears to be a plural form in Old English, representing a form like hypothetical British 'Onnodubri' or hypothetical Primitive Welsh 'Ondibr' 'ash waters (streams)' (cf Jackson 1953: 285). Translation at the grammatical level is implied, suggesting bilingual contact. The streams would be the ANTON and the right tributary joining it above the town. If this is an old area name, Pillhill Brook may also be referred to (see ABBOT'S ANN for some relevant discussion).

description
Andover
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830

Period - 19th century, early
refce: Cobbett 1830
Andover is a neat and solid market-town. It is supported entirely by the agriculture around it; and how the makers of population returns ever came to think of classing the inhabitants of such a town as this under any other head than that of 'persons employed in agriculture,' would appear astonishing to any man who did not know those population return makers as well as I do.
...
After the fair [Weyhill Fair] was over, yesterday, I came down from the Hill (3 miles) to this town of ANDOVER; which has within the last 20 days, been more talked of, in other parts of the kingdom, than it ever was before from the creation of the world to the beginning of those 20 days. The THOMAS ASHETON SMITHS and the SIR JOHN POLLENS, famous as they have been under the banners of the Old Navy Purser, George Rose, and his successors, have never, even since the death of poor TURNER, been half so famous, they and this CORPORATION, whom they represent, as they have been since the MEETING which they held here, which ended in their defeat and confusion, pointing them out as worthy of that appellation of 'POOR DEVILS,' which POLLEN thought proper to give to those labourers, without whose toil his estate would not be worth a single farthing.

old map
Andover
Shown on an old map by Perrot 1823
- Hamp
refce: Perrot 1823
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old gazetteer
Andover

Period - 19th century, early
refce: Brookes 1815
a borough in Hampshire, with a market on Saturday, a manufacture of shalloons, and a considerable trade in malt. A navigable canal passes hence to Southampton water. It is situate near the river Ande, 10m N by W Winchester. and 63 W by S London. Lon. 1 20 W, lat. 51 14 N.

old map
Andover
Shown on an old map by Baker 1802

Period - 19th century, early
refce: Baker 1802 (opp p.52)
:: Andover 63
63 miles from London; drawing of town, 2 churches with low spires.

old map
Andover
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, town - Andover Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
refce: Harrison 1788
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old map
Andover
Shown on an old map by Badeslade 1742
- settlement, town, market town - Hampshire
Period - 1740s
refce: Badeslade 1742
Market Sat: Fairs May 1st. Nov: 6. Friday before Midlent Sund: sends 2 Members [to Parliament]

description
Andover
otherwise: Andeafaran
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- Hampshire
refce: Cox 1738
Andover, called by the Saxons Andeafaran, i. e. the Ferry or Passage over the River Ande. It is a Mayor, Market, and Borough-Town, a great Thorough-fare, lying in the Western Road from London, pleasantly seated on the Side of the Downs, which makes it both healthy and delightful, a populous and thriving Place.
The Town is governed by a Mayor, Recorder, Aldermen, Bailiffs and Common-Council-Men, and has the privilege of electing Members to Parliament, who now are Sir Thomas Lee and Sir John Wharton. It has a great Market every Saturday, and two Fairs yearly, on May 1, and November 6. Weyhill Fair, which is so famous, and kept on September 30, is near this Town, but takes its Name from the adjoining Village, which is of Note for nothing else.

descriptive text

Period - 18th century, early
refce: Defoe 1724
... Newbery ... the people are generally imployed in making shalloons, a kind of stuff, which, though it be used only for the lineing and insides of mens cloaths, for women use but little of it, nor the men for any thing but as above, yet it becomes so generally worn, both at home and abroad, that it is increased to a manufacture by itself, and is more considerable, than any single manufacture of stuffs in the nation. This imploys the town of Newbery, as also, Andover, another town on the side of Wiltshire, about twelve miles from it, ...
And, having mentioned Andover, though out of the road that I was in, I must digress to tell you, that the town of Andover lies on the very edge of the downs which I have so often mentioned [Salisbury Plain], and is in the road from Newbery to Salisbury, as it is from London to Taunton, and all the manufacturing part of Somersetshire; 'tis a handsom town,well built, populous, and much inrich'd by the manufacture, as above, and may be called a thriving town: It sends two members to Parliament, and is an antient corporation.

coat of arms

refce: Bowen 1720 (plate 78)
ye Arms of ANDOVER / Andover / a very Flourishing & Trading Town incorporated last by Q: Eliz: under a Bayliff, High Steward, Recorderder, 10 approved Men (out of whom are Chosen [2] Iustices) 22 capitall Burgesses. Memb: for Parliamentare Elected by a Majority of ye Corporation. Their Trade consists in Malt Shalloons &c. Markets Saturday. Fairs May 1st. & Novemr. 6th.

old map
Andover
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, town - Andover Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
refce: Morden 1695
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Andover
Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
- settlement, town - Hampshire
refce: Ogilby 1675 (pl.32)
street map
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Andover
Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
- settlement, town - Hampshire
refce: Ogilby 1675 (pl.26)
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Andover
Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
- settlement, town - Hampshire
refce: Ogilby 1675 (pl.25)
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old map
Andover
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, town - Andover Hundred - Hantshire
refce: Blaeu 1645
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table of distances
Andover
otherwise: Andever
Shown on an old map by Simmons 1643
- Hamshire
Period - 1630s-40s
refce: Simmons 1643
in the N.W. sector of the thumbnail map; 60 miles from London
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old map
Andover
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, town - Andover Hundred - Hantshire
refce: Speed 1611
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description
Andover
The place is described in text Camden 1610
- Hantshire
Period - 1600s
refce: Camden 1610
... in old times [river] Ant, or Anton: as the townes standing upon it, namely ... Andover, ...
... now called Test, and in times past Anton, ... goeth first to Andover, which in the Saxon language is [Andeasaran], that is, The Passage or Ferry over And:

old map
Andover
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, town - Andover infra Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
refce: Norden 1607
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old map
Andoner
Shown on an old map by Keer 1620
- Southampton
refce: Keer 1620
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Andover
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, town - Southamtoniae
refce: Saxton 1575
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table of distances
Andevor

Period - 16th century
refce: Myddylton 1544
table of distances
the waye fro~ Saint Buryen in Cornewell to London.
...
From Salisbury to Andevor. xv. myle.
from Andevor to Basingstoke xvi. myle

domesday
Andovere
Listed in Domesday Book
- Andovere Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
refce: Domesday Book 1086 (1.41)
TERRA REGIS ... ANDOVERE ten. rex in dnio . Rex E tenuit ...

domesday
Andovere
Listed in Domesday Book
- Andovere Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
refce: Moody 1862 (Domesday)

coat of arms

refce: Bowen 1720 (plate 78)
Borough seal, 1933, a lion standing in front of an oak tree.
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   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001