Droxford
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU6018
otherwise: drocenesforda, 826-12; drocelesford, 900-999?; Drokenesford, 1205; Trokenesford, 1236; Drocheneford, 1086
DROXFORD
Ekwall, in the Dictionary of English Place Names suggests derivation from hypothetical Old English 'drocen'='a dry place', hence 'ford at the dry place'. I cannot improve on this. The 13th century spellings with 'T' remain unexplained. There was a 'throc briggae'=' plank or trestle bridge' in the bounds of Droxford (BCS 393, S276) which Grundy (1924: 77) places where the modern A333 crosses a left tributary of the river Hamble, but despite the partial similarity of the name to 'Droxford' no common origin can be suggested if we go on appearances; the forms in 'D' appear in MSS. whose supposed archetypes are of the Anglo Saxon period. But there is sufficient doubt about the two MSS. in question to leave the matter open, the archetype of one being of uncertain date and the other MS. being spurious.
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
Period - 19th century, early
... you can see up this valley ... as far as West-Meon, and down it as far as Soberton. Corhampton, Warnford, Meon-Stoke and Droxford come within these two points; so that here are six villages on this bourne within the space of about five miles.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, village - Waltham Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, hamlet - Waltham Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Waltham Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Waltham Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Waltham Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
Listed in Domesday Book
- Drocheneford Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
HAE TERRAE ... SVNT DE VICTV MONACHO. Wint. ... Ipse ep~s ten. DROCHENEFORD . Se~p fuit in aeccla ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Drocheneford Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
