Gosport
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Hampshire
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50.48N 1.08W : lat'n'long
otherwise: Goseport, 1251
GOSPORT in Alverstoke liberty
Apparently a medieval name meaning 'town of geese' or 'port of geese'. If the name dates from Old English times one might envisage it coming from a hypothetical man's name 'Gosa' analogous to 'Horsa'.
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
... Those scenes of glorious loyalty, the sea-port places, are beginning to be deserted. How many villages had that scene of all that is wicked and odious, Portsmouth, Gosport, and Portsea; how many villages has that hellish assemblage beggared! It is now being scattered itself! ... There is an absolute tumbling down taking place, where, so lately, there were such 'vast improvements Ma'am!' ...
Shown on an old map by Perrot 1823
- Hamp
- settlement, town - fortification
Period - 19th century, early
a fortified town in Hampshire, on the W side of the harbour of Portsmouth, over which is a ferry. It has a market on Saturday, and a considerable trade, especially in times of war, from its contiguity to the naval arsenal at Portsmouth. The number of inhabitants was 11,295 in 1801, and 12,212 in 1811. Here are several breweries, an extensive iron foundery, and a royal hospital, called Haslar Hospital, for the sick and wounded of the royal navy. It is 15m SE Southampton, and 73 SW London.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, town - Titchfield Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Badeslade 1742
- settlement, village - Hampshire
Period - 1740s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Portesdown Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, hamlet - Titchfeild Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, hamlet - Titchfeild Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Alverstoke and Gosport Liberties hundred: - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
... to Gosport a litle village of fisshar men by much hethy and feren ground a vj. miles.
Heere stoode a prophanid chapelle nere the shore of Portesmouth Haven scant half a mile from the very mouth of the haven.
HMCMS:FA1998.49.8
A ship representing Henry de Blois sailing into the harbour, 1140, taking refuge from a storm and naming it God's Port.
GOD'S PORT OUR HAVEN
