Greatham
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU7730
otherwise: Greteham, 1086; Grietham, 1167; Gretham, 1179; Grutam, 1235
GREATHAM
Hypothetical Old English 'Greotham'='gravel estate', duplicating a name in Sussex. The site of the manor is marked by the unusually named 19th century house 'Le Court' (in the time of James I 'Lee Court') ie: 'the court' in a barbarous legal French guise. However the geology suggests that the place is named from the present site of the village, on the occasionally pebbly Folkestone beds, rather than from that of the manor, above the landslipped gault on the sandy upper greensand.
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
... the danger of breaking my neck at Hawkley and of getting buried in the bogs of Woolmer Forest. My route was through East-Meon, Froxfield, Hawkley, Greatham, and then over Woolmer Forest, (a heath if you please) to Headley.
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... These hangers [Hawkley Hanger] are woods on the sides of very steep hills. The trees and underwood hang, in some sort, to the ground, instead of standing on it. Hence these places are called Hangers. From the summit of that which I had now to descend, I looked down upon the villages of Hawkley, Greatham, Selborne and some others.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, village - Alton Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Alton Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Alton Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Alton Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Alton Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Keer 1620
- Southampton
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
Listed in Domesday Book
- Neteham Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA REGIS ... Ipse Rex ten. GRETEHA~ . Eddid regina tenuit ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Neteham Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
