Fair Oak

Fair Oak, Fair Oak and Horton Heath
settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Fair Oak and Horton Heath
Hampshire
SU5018
refce: HANTSLOC.t

old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants LVIII.10

Fair Oak
otherwise: Fereoke, 1596

refce: Coates 1989
FAIR OAK, modern parish carved out of Bishopstoke
Middle English or early Modern English 'beautiful oak'. No fair is known to have been held here, unlike in the case of the Fairlop Oak (Essex).

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001