Enborne, River
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU5563
parish:
parish:
parish:
parish:
county:
Burghclere
Newtown
Highclere
East Woodhay
Hampshire
otherwise: aleburnan, 749-12; alerburnan, 931-12
ENBORNE, river
Hypothetical Old English 'Alorburna'='alder stream'. The name has become confused (witness the 13th century spellings 'Aleburn, Aneburne') with that of 'Enborne' village 2 miles inside Berkshire, whose name is from hypothetical Old English 'Enedburna' (1200 'Enedburn')='duck stream' (cf ANDWELL).
(18 miles long) has its source on Inkpen Beacon, and forms the boundary between this county and Berkshire before it falls into the Kennet, a tributary of the Thames.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- river - Kingsclear Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Badeslade 1742
- river - Hampshire
Period - 1740s
- river - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
- river - Hampshire
- river - Hantshire
- river - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
- Southampton
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- river - Southamtoniae
otherwise: Aleburne; Awborne
rises near West Woodhay, flows 14m to River Kennet near Aldermaston; county boundary
