Exton
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU6120
otherwise: east seaxnatune; east seaxena tunes, 940-12; Essessentune, 1086
EXTON
Old English 'East Saxons' farm'. This must mean the farm was inhabited by people from Essex, but no historical light has been thrown on this yet.
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
CAME from Alresford to Hambledon, through Titchbourne, Cheriton, Beauworth, Kilmston and Exton. This is all a high, hard, dry, fox-hunting country.
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Just below you, to the East [from Lomer Beacon], you look down upon the village of Exton; and you can see up this valley (which is called a Bourne too) as far as West-Meon, and down it as far as Soberton. ... I had, I think, a full mile to go down from the top of Beacon Hill to Exton. This is the village where that Parson Baines lives who, as described by me in 1817, bawled in Lord Cochrane's ear at Winchester in the month of March of that year.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, village - Fawley Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
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 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 Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
Listed in Domesday Book
- Menestoch Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
HAE TERRAE ... SVNT DE VICTV MONACHO. Wint. ... Ipse eps. ten. ESSESSENTVNE . Se~p fuit in aeccla ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Menestoches Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
