Buckholt
otherwise: Bocolt, 1086; Bocholte, 1231
BUCKHOLT, parish west of Broughton
These forms actually relate to an extinguished manor in the New Forest, in Redbridge hundred, but there can be little doubt that the parish west of Broughton (modern spelling 1817) has a name of identical origin. hypothetical Old English 'Bocholt'='beech wood'. 'Holt' usually means a grove or managed woodland, very often of a single species (cf Gelling 1984: 196); hence this name.
Listed in Domesday Book
- Rodbrige Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
