Beauworth
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU5726
otherwise: beowyrth, 938-12; beowyrthe, 963-975; Beworda, 1208; Buworthe, 1280
BEAUWORTH
Very likely Old English 'bee curtilage', ie: a farmstead where the inhabitant kept bees rather than one which specialized in honey.
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
Period - 19th century, early
CAME from Alresford to Hambledon, through Titchbourne, Cheriton, Beauworth, Kilmston and Exton. This is all a high, hard, dry, fox-hunting country.
... I came on to Beauworth to inquire after the family of a worthy old farmer, whom I knew there some years ago, and of whose death I had heard at Alresford. ...
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Fawley Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Badeslade 1742
- settlement, village - Hampshire
Period - 1740s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, hamlet - Fawley Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, hamlet - Fawley Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, hamlet - Fawley Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, hamlet - Fawley Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
