Dogmersfield
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU7853
otherwise: Dochemeresfelda, 1106; Dokemerefeld, 1185; Dogmaresfeld, 1206
DOGMERSFIELD
Spellings implying both [k] and [g] at the end of the first syllable alternate in the Middle Ages, with 'g' forms coming to predominate in the early-mid 13th century. Old English 'open land at hypothetical 'Doccanmere'' a place name meaning 'dock pool' (from the plant), now lost. The pool mentioned may be an ancestor of Tundry Pond (origin unknown, cf 1629 'Tundry greene'; from medieval French 'tonderie'='sheep- or cloth-shearing workshop'?), but I am not sure what effect the cutting of the Basingstoke Canal has had upon the local hydrology.
In Dogmersfield is 'Ormersfield Farm' which appears to be a deliberate revival of the corrupt Domesday Book spelling for the place name 'Ormeresfelt'.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, village - Odiham Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- Hampshire
Dogmanfield, a small Village, the Manor of which was purchased by the Crown, and by King Edward II. bestowed on the Earl of Southampton, with divers other Lands in other Counties, in Accomplishment of the Gift of his Father King Henry VIII. of most famous Memory; to have and to hold to him and his Heirs for ever, together with such Houses, Parks, Woods, Fairs &c. as belong unto the same.
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, hamlet - Odiham Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- house - Odiam Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- house - Southamtoniae
Listed in Domesday Book
- Efedel Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
[... alii plures seruientes regis] ... HVGO barbat ten. de rege ORMERESFELT . Suein tenuit de rege E in alodiu~ ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Edefele Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
