Fordingbridge
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Hampshire
SU150145
50.56N 1.47W : lat'n'long
otherwise: Fordingebrig', 1227; Fordingebrug', 1255
- settlement, town
FORDINGBRIDGE, town and hundred
Old English/Middle English 'bridge of the dwellers at Ford', this being the name of the place before there was a bridge (1086, 1242 'Forde'). The names survived as aliases for both the town and the hundred into the 15th century. In the last quarter of the 13th century a short lived tradition emerges with 'Forth-'.
Period - 19th century, early
a town in Hampshire, with a market on Saturday, and a manufacture of checks and bed-ticks; seated on the Avon, 10m S Salisbury, and 88 W by S London.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, town - Fordingbridge Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Badeslade 1742
- settlement, town - Hampshire
Period - 1740s
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- Hampshire
Fording bridge, a Market-Town, giving Name to the adjoining Hundred. The Market is on [ ] and the Fair upon the last Day of the Dog-Days, Aug. 28.
The Town was much larger than now it is, because it hath suffered much by Fire at several Times, particularly about ten or twelve Years ago, and the Houses have not been re-built.
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, town - Fordingbridg Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Fording Bridge Hundred - Hantshire
otherwise: Fording-bridge
Shown on an old map by Simmons 1643
- Hamshire
Period - 1630s-40s
in the S.W. sector of the thumbnail map; 77 miles from London
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Fordi~cbridge Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Fordingbridg Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Listed in Domesday Book
- Fordingebrige Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA ROB~TI FILII GIROLDI ... Isd~ Rob~t ten. FORDE et Rob~t de eo . Aluui tenuit in alod~ de rege E ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Fordingebrige Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
Period - 14th century (about 1360)
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