Boyatt Wood

Boyatt Wood, Eastleigh
wood
parish:
county:
coords:
Eastleigh
Hampshire
SU4420
refce: HANTSLOC.t

old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants LVII.7

Boyatt Wood
otherwise: Boviete, 1086; Bovegat, 1207; Buviet, 1211

refce: Coates 1989
BOYATT WOOD, suburb of Chandler's Ford
Enshrines the name of 'Boyatt' a Domesday Book manor in Otterbourne and later tithing of Mansbridge hundred.
refce: Coates 1989
BOYATT WOOD, suburb of Chandler's Ford
Hypothetical Old English 'bufan geate'='above (the) gate'. The 'gate' must be the point where the Itchen Navigation canal meets the main course of the river Itchen; the valley narrows noticeably at this point.

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001