Binley
Binley, St Mary Bournecounty:
coords:
Hampshire
SU421533
otherwise: Benelega, 1184; Bynleghe, 1269; Bienlygh, 1334
BINLEY, hamlet in St Mary Bourne
Maybe Old English 'Beona leah'='bees' clearing/wood' or 'Bynnan leah'='Bynna's clearing/wood'. However, given the universal importance of beans in the medieval peasant's diet, we should consider 'Beanleah'='bean clearing'. The medial syllable only appears in 2 recorded medieval forms. Ekwall relates several other place names (eg 'Bincknoll' (Wiltshire)) with '-ie-' in spellings of the first syllable to Old English 'bean'.
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
Period - 19th century, early
... We came through a village called WOODCOTE, and another, called BINLEY. I never saw any inhabited places more [r]ecluse than these. Yet into these, the all-searching eye of the taxing THING reaches. Its Exciseman can tell it what is doing even in the little odd corner of BINLEY; for even there I saw, over the door of a place, not half so good as the place in which my fowls roost, 'LICENSED TO DEAL IN TEA AND TOBACCO.' Poor, half-starved wretches of BINLEY! The hand of taxation, the collection for the sinecures and pensious (sic), must fix its nails even in them, who really appeared too miserable to be called by the name of people.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Evinger Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, hamlet - Evinger Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, hamlet - Evinger Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, hamlet - Evinger Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, hamlet - Evinger Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
