Botley
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Hampshire
SU5113
otherwise: Botelie, 1086; Botlai, 1184; Bottele; Bottelee; Bottely; Bottelye, 1200-1299?; Botlegh, 1349
BOTLEY
Old English 'wood or clearing of Botta', a man's name, perhaps a diminutive of a name like 'Bot(w)ulf'.
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
Period - 19th century, early
Botley lies in a valley, the soil of which is a deep and stiff clay. Oak trees grow well; and this year the wheat grows well, as it does upon all the clays that I have seen. I have never seen the wheat better in general, in this part of the country, than it is now. I have, I think, seen it heavier; but never clearer from blight. It is backward compared to the wheat of many other parts; some of it is quite green; but none of it has any appearance of blight. This is not much of a barley country. The oats are good. The beans, that I have seen, very indifferent.
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... to BOTLEY, where we remained during the rest of the day, and until after breakfast yesterday. I had not seen 'the BOTLEY PARSON' for several years, and I wished to have a look at him now, but could not get a sight of him, though we rode close before his house, at much about his breakfast time, and though we gave him the strongest of invitation that could be expressed by hallooing and by cracking of whips! The fox was too cunning for us, and, do all we could, we could not provoke him to put even his nose out of kennel.
... From Mr. JAMES WARNER'S at Botley, we went ...
Period - 19th century, early
a village in Hampshire, 6m E Southampton, on the river Hamble, noted for a considerable trade in flour.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, village - Mansbridge Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Mansbridg Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, hamlet - Mansbridg Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Mansbridg Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Mansbridge Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
otherwise: Botley; Buddeley
The place is described in text Leland 1535-43
A 3. miles above Hamelrise at the very hedde of the creke [Hamelle Creeke] is a good village caullid Budley or Botley.
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Buddeley is caullid but 3. miles from Tichefelde.
Minns says:- Botley, Botelei in Domesday, at the head of Hamble Creek
Listed in Domesday Book
- Manesbrige Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA RADVLFI DE MORTIMER ... Isd~e Rad. ten. BOTELEI . Cheping tenuit de rege E ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Manebrige Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
see:- Gough Map
Period - 14th century (about 1360)
