Finley

Finley, Baughurst
parish:
hundred:
county:

Baughurst
Kingsclere Hundred
Hampshire
Finley's Row
otherwise: Finlei, 1086; Fineleg', 1248
refce: Coates 1989
FINLEY'S ROW, lost manor in Ewhurst
The Domesday Book form is an interpolation in the entry for Wolverton. The name appears to be hypothetical Old English 'Finleah'='woodheap clearing/wood' or 'Finaleah'='woodpeckers' wood'; unless, as Gover suggests, a form 909 'thingleage' refers to the same place, in which case it is 'assembly clearing/wood'. For this to be plausible, we would have to show that this was the meeting place of Kingsclere hundred.
domesday
 Finlei
Listed in Domesday Book
- Clere Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
refce: Domesday Book 1086 (64.1)
TERRA ALVREDI PRB~I ... ALVRED ten. de rege VLVRETVNE [et Finlei] . Alueua tenuit de rege ...
   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001