Godsfield
Godsfield, Old Alresfordcounty:
coords:
Hampshire
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otherwise: Godefeld, 1150-1199?; Godesfeld, 1305
GODSFIELD, extraparochial area of Bountisborough hundred
Gover believes that this area was detached from Itchen Stoke and granted to the Knights Hospitaller in the late 12th century; from which he infers that the name is self explanatory. But the earliest forms do not show the expected '-s'. If the form is Old English it could be 'Goda's open land', reinterpreted in the light of its being held by the Hospitallers.
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, hamlet - Maynsboro Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
