Easton
Easton, Itchen Valleycounty:
coords:
Hampshire
SU5132
otherwise: eastuninga, 825-12; eastun, 871-877
EASTON
Old English 'east farm'. The form of 825 occurs in a context making clear that it means '(boundary) of the people of Easton'. It is east of the lost place with an ancient type of name 'Igtun' on the adjacent island in the river Itchen, as the Old English bounds of Martyr Worthy make plain. More weakly, it is north-east of Winchester, which might explain the name.
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
This village of Easton lies at a few miles towards the north-east from Winchester. It is distant from Botley by the way which I came about fifteen or sixteen miles.
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... I came through the Duke's Park to come to Easton, which is the next village below Avington. ... The village of Easton is, like that of Avington, close by the water-side [River Itchen]. The meadows are the attraction; and, indeed, it is the meadows that have caused the villages to exist.
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As we had to come to this place [Easton], which is three miles up the river Itchen from Winchester, we crossed the Winchester and Basingstoke road at King's Worthy. ...
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, village - Fawley 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 - Fawley Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Fawley Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Simmons 1643
- Hamshire
Period - 1630s-40s
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Fawley Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Fawley Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Keer 1620
- Southampton
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
The place is described in text Leland 1535-43
Thens 2. miles to Eston village, wher is a wood bridge for cartes.
Listed in Domesday Book
- Falelei Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA WINTONIENS. EP~I ... Ipse ep~s ten. ESTVNE in d~nio Se~p fuit in episcopatu ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Falelie Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
