Faccombe
settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Faccombe
Hampshire
SU3958
refce: HANTSLOC.t
Faccombe
otherwise: faccan cumbes, 863-12; faccancumb, 950?
refce: Coates 1989
FACCOMBE
Hypothetical Old English 'Faccancumb'='Facca's valley'. 'Facca' is not recorded, but is the precise equivalent of the continental Germanic man's name 'Facco. Cumb' usually denotes a bowl- or trough-shaped valley with three steep sides (cf Cole 1982). Such valleys are common near the chalk scarp, and there is a COMBE just across the county boundary in Berkshire (formerly in Hampshire). Faccombe village actually overlooks its valley from the top of a spur.
old map
 Facombe
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, town - Pastrow Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
refce: Harrison 1788
(HAR1SU35.jpg)
old map
 Fackham
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Pastrow Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
refce: Morden 1695
(MRD2SU35.jpg)
old map
 Fakeham
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, hamlet - Pastrae Hundred - Hantshire
refce: Blaeu 1645
(BLA1SU35.jpg)
old map
 Fakeham
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, hamlet - Pastrae Hundred - Hantshire
refce: Speed 1611
(SPD1SU35.jpg)
old map
 Sackeham
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607 (perhaps)
- settlement, village - Pastrae Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
refce: Norden 1607
(NRD1SU35.jpg)
old map
 Fackham
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
refce: Saxton 1575
(SAX1SU35.jpg)
domesday
 Facu~be
Listed in Domesday Book
- Esseborne Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
refce: Domesday Book 1086 (1.46)
TERRA REGIS ... Rex ten. FACV~BE . Lang tenuit de rege E ...
   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001