East Woodhay
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU405614
Woodhay, East
otherwise: Wydenhaya, 1144; Wydehaye, 1171; Wodeheya, 1189-1199
WOODHAY (EAST)
Possibly hypothetical Old English 'Wuduhege' or 'Wudugehaeg'='wood enclosure (using artificial fences)' (cf Coates 1988a). If so, the first element may be in its earlier form 'widu'. It is more likely that it was originally 'wid'='broad', and that the name means 'broad enclosure'. 'East Woodhay'. (1350 'Estwydehay') by contrast with West Woodhay over the boundary in Berkshire. This may be the Domesday Book manor of WINDENAIE, which has been alternatively identified with 'Whitnal' in Whitchurch.
otherwise: Windenaie, 1086
WINDENAIE, Domesday Book manor in Whitchurch or really (EAST) WOODHAY
Morris associates this difficult Domesday Book name with a boundary mark 'whitan leasheal'='(at) the nook of Whitewood' in Whitchurch'; he does not spell out his reasons, simply citing earlier authorities, and concedes that its spelling bar the first 'n' could easily represent (EAST) WOODHAY, and that is what Gover takes it to be. Both Whitchurch and East Woodhay are in the appropriate hundred, Evingar.
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
It was dark by the time that we got to a village, called EAST WOODHAY. Sunday evening is the time for courting, in the country. It not convenient to carry this on before faces, and, at farm-houses and cottages, there are no spare apartments; so that the pairs turn out, and pitch up, to carry on their negociations, by the side of stile or a gate. The evening was auspicious; it was pretty dark, the weather mild, and Old Michaelmas (when yearly services end) was fast approaching; and, accordingly, I do not recollect ever having before seen so many negociations going on, within so short a distance. At WEST WOODHAY my horse [had] cast a shoe, and, as the road was abominably flinty, we were compelled to go at a snail's pace; and I should have gone crazy with impatience, had it not been for these ambassadors and ambassadresses of Cupid, to every pair of whom I said something or other. I began by asking the fellow my road; and, from the tone and manner of his answer, I could tell pretty nearly what prospect he had of success, and knew what to say to draw something from him. I had some famous sport with them, saying to them more than I should have said by day-light, and a great deal less than I should have said, if my horse had been in a condition to carry me away as swiftly as ...
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, village - Evinger Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Badeslade 1742
- settlement, village - Hampshire
Period - 1740s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Evinger Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Evinger Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Evinger Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Evinger Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
