Fyfield
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU2946
otherwise: fif hidan; fif hidon; fif hida land, 975-12; Fifhide, 1086
FYFIELD
Old English 'fif hida'='(the) 5 hides', cf HYDE ABBEY. The Domesday Book assessment of the manor is indeed 5 hides. The first distortion of the second element is 1535 'Fyfeld'. Thus also the same name in Berkshire, Essex, Gloucestershire, 'West Fifield' twice in each of Oxfordshire and Wiltshire and 'Fifehead' three times in Dorset. The frequency of the name is due to such an area being the standard holding of a thegn. Cf TOYD FARM.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, town - Andover Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Andover extra Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Andover Without Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Andover without Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Andover extra Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
Listed in Domesday Book
- Andovre Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA WILL~I MALDVITH ... Isd~e Will~s ten. V hid~ trae [Fifhide uocat] . Has tenuit Vlueuade de rege E in alodiu~ ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Andovere Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
