Hamble
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Hampshire
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Hamble-le-Rice
otherwise: Hamele, 1165-1175; Hamele de Rys, 1386; Hamele in the Rice, 1391
HAMBLE (officially HAMBLE-LE-RICE)
The village is named from the river (about 750 'Homelea' 900 (early 11th century transcript) 'hamele') which is Old English 'hamelea'='crooked (literally 'mutilated') river'. The allusion must be to the big bend at Bursledon. The qualifying phrase means 'in the brushwood or undergrowth' (Old English 'hris')).
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Mansbridge Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Waltham Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, hamlet - Mansbridge Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, hamlet - Mansbridg Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
The place is described in text Leland 1535-43
It [Hamelle Creeke] takith name of a good fisschar toun caullid Hamelrise, that lyith about a mile ynward from the creke mouth of the lift hand by weste.
Minns says:- Hamelrise, Hamel-en-le-rys or Hamble Rice, Hamble on the west side of the Hamble river. Here was the priory of St. Andrew, a cell to the Benedictines Abbey of Thiron near Chartres. After the suppression of alien priories, William of Wykeham acquired the revenues with which he endowed his two St. Mary Colleges.
This towne now longgith to the New College in Winchester. It longgid afore to a priorie of religious men in the same toune.
