Bishops Waltham
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Hampshire
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50.58N 1.12W : lat'n'long
Waltham, Bishop's
otherwise: waltham, 904-12; wealthaeminga, 909-11?; wealtham, 963-975
WALTHAM (BISHOP'S), parish and chase
Old English 'wealdham'='woodland estate', in a technical sense (cf Huggins 1975). Places bearing this name appear to be establishments operative very early in Anglo Saxon times, and were royal woodland domains. This place is occasionally 'Suthwaltham' in the Middle Ages (contrast (NORTH) WALTHAM) and variously also 'Waltham Episcopi' or 'Bisshoppeswaltham' and the like. The document of 904 records the grant of the estate by king Eadweard ('the Elder') to the see of Winchester. The form of 909 means 'to the boundary of the inhabitants of Waltham'. The earlier name for the chase was 1301 'Hordareswode' 1307 'Hordereswode' which looks suspiciously as though it contains Old English 'hordere'='treasurer' (ie: of the bishopric?). The term 'chase' was originally applied to non-royal hunting grounds.
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
Period - 19th century, early
... Away to the right of Upham, lies the little town of Bishop's Waltham, whither I wished to go very much, but it was too late in the day. ...
Period - 19th century, early
a town in Hampshire, with a market on Friday. Here the bishops of Winchester had formerly a stately palace, which was destroyed in the civil wars. It is 9m SSE Wincheser, and 65 W by S London.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, town - Waltham Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Badeslade 1742
- settlement, town - Hampshire
Period - 1740s
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- Hampshire
Bushwaltham, which gives Name to the Forest adjoining, where the Bishops of Winchester had formerly a stately Seat, but it was ruin'd in the late Civil Wars.
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, town - Waltham Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, town - Waltham Hundred - Hantshire
otherwise: B. Waltham
Shown on an old map by Simmons 1643
- Hamshire
Period - 1630s-40s
in the S.E. sector of the thumbnail map; 57 miles from London
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, town - Waltham Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, town - Waltham Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Keer 1620
- Southampton
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, town - Southamtoniae
The place is described in text Leland 1535-43
From Wikham to Waltham a praty town 3. miles by enclosid ground, good pasture, wodde and corne.
Here the Bisshop of Winchester hath a right ample and goodly maner place motid aboute and a praty brooke renning hard by it.
Listed in Domesday Book
- Waltham Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA WINTONIENS. EP~I ... Ipse eps. ten. WALTHA~ in d~nio . Se~p fuit de epatu...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Waltham Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
see:- Gough Map
Period - 14th century (about 1360)
