Buckholt Forest
otherwise: Bocolt, 1086; Bokolt, 1254
BUCKHOLT FOREST
Old English 'managed beech wood'.
- wood - Thorngate Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
- forest
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- forest - Thornegate Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Drayton 1612
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- forest - Thornegate Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- forest, wood - Thornegate Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
- Southampton
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- wood, forest - Southamtoniae
The place is described in text Leland 1535-43
Passing a 3. miles farther I left a mile on the right hond Buckholt Woodde, a great thing, wher in tymes past by likelihod hath bene a chace for dere.
Minns says:- It is Clarendon Park, which was a royal chace, and not Buckholt, to which our Author alludes. The former is close at hand, the latter at some miles distant.
- forest, royal forest - Hampshire
