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Baughurst
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settlement
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coords:
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SU5860
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HANTSLOC.t
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25inch County Series map -- Hants X.1 |
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Baughurst
otherwise: beaggan hyrste, 909-12; Baggeherst, 1175;
Baggehurst, 1189
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Coates 1989
BAUGHURST
Ekwall and Gover translate 'Beagga's wood', claiming 'Beagga' to be a short
form of a man's name like 'Beagmund, -noth'. This is possible. But the Old
English form may be in error. All the medieval development is compatible with an
Old English hypothetical name 'Bagganhyrst'='badger wooded hill'. Hypothetical
'Bagga' is not recorded, but place name scholars have long accepted its
existence (Smith, English Place Name Elements I: 17-18). The name would be
parallel to the numerous 'Bagleys' and 'Bagshaws'. (Note that there is a
'Brock's Green' (probably 1245 'Brochurst') about 4 miles away in Ecchinswell.)
Moreover 'hyrst' rarely appears with a personal name as first element.
Unusually, therefore, I prefer to take an attested Old English form as
misleading. (The document (in B.L. Add. 15350) is spurious, in fact.)
The modern (irregular) pronunciation is first shown by 1558 'Bogorste' 1741
'Baugust'. The parish name has also influenced the name 'Haughurst' which was
1256 'Hauekehurst'='hawk wooded hill'.
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Banghurst
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Evinger Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
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Harrison 1788
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Baghurst
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Holdshot Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
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Morden 1695
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Baghurst
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Evinger Hundred - Hantshire
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Blaeu 1645
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Baghurst
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Evinger Hundred - Hantshire
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Speed 1611
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Bakehurste
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Evinger Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
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Norden 1607
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Bakeherst
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
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Saxton 1575
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