Chute Forest
otherwise: foresta de Cet, 1222; Schet; Schete, 1245; Chut, 1298
CHUTE FOREST
A Primitive Welsh word for 'woodland' hypothetical 'ced' is the basis of this place name and MELCHET PARK, as well as numerous names in other counties, though precisely which ones is debatable. The modern form appears to descend from the West Saxonized hypothetical form 'Ciet'. Sometimes in the 13th century taken to be 'sceat, sciete'='angle, nook', an element often associated with words for trees (cf ALDERSHOT) and other plants (BRAMSHOTT).
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- forest, wood - Pastrow Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- forest - Hampshire
... Forest of Chute, delightful for its shady Walks, pleasant Hunting, and plenty of Game, where the Huntsmen and Foresters admire its [roman road] paved rising Ridge, which is very visible, tho' it be in some Places interrupted.
- forest, wood - Thorngate Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
unnamed grouping of trees
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- forest - Andover Without Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Drayton 1612
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- forest - Andover without Hundred - Hantshire
The place is described in text Camden 1610
- Hantshire
Period - 1600s
[roman road] ... to the Forrest of Chute pleasant for coole shade of trees, & plentifull game: in which the Hunters and Forresters themselves do wonder at the bank or ridge thereof, so evident to be seene, paved with stone, but broken here and there.
The place is described in text Camden 1610
- Hantshire
Period - 1600s
... now called Test, ... springeth out of the forrest of Chat
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- forest, wood - Andover extra Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
- Southampton
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- wood, forest - Southamtoniae
- forest, royal forest - Hampshire
