Beaulieu
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Hampshire
SU386023
50.49N 1.27W : lat'n'long
otherwise: Bello Loco Regis, 1205; Bellum Locum, 1208; Beulu, 1300; Beuleu, 1341; Bewley, 1381
BEAULIEU
Anglo Norman 'lovely place', a name created for the abbey established in 1205. Often appearing in a Latin form, as in the first two examples. Anglicized over the years and still pronounced in the English way. 'The king's' because in the forest and therefore in the king's gift (John's, in this case).
otherwise: Bauley; Beuley
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
Period - 19th century, early
... They call the place Bewley, and even in the maps, it is called Bauley: Ley, in the Saxon langauge, means place, or rather, open place; so that they put ley in place of lieu, thus beating the Normans out of some part of the name at any rate. ...
... we came to the village of Beaulieu (which, observe, the people call Beuley), ...
Period - 19th century, early
a village in Hampshire, on a river of its name, 6m SSW Southampton. It has a manufacture of coarse sacking; and on the opposite side of the river are the remains of its famous abbey, founded by king John.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, town - New Forest Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - New Forrest Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Newforrest Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Simmons 1643
- Hamshire
Period - 1630s-40s
in the S.W. sector of the thumbnail map; 73 miles from London
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Newforrest Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, town - Newforrest Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
The place is described in text Leland 1535-43
From Cauldshore Castelle upward by south west a ... brekith in a creeke that goith up into the land a 3. or 4. miles, and at the hedde of this creeke was Bewley, an abbay of White Monkes, a tounlet and ...
see:- Gough Map
Period - 14th century (about 1360)
