Havant
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Hampshire
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50.51N 0.59W : lat'n'long
otherwise: hamanfuntan, 935-12; Havehunte, 1086; Hauunta, 1170-1256
HAVANT, liberty
'Hama's spring'. Old English 'funta' usually means a spring in some way Romanized; the word is, indirectly, a borrowing from Latin 'fontana'. Havant, along with FONTLEY and BOARHUNT, is in a hydrologically remarkable area. The Chalk which forms the ridge of Portsdown is here overlain by Eocene Beds, and when the Chalk is bored into through these beds artesian fountains may occur (Cole 1985: 6). One such fountain, or one of the copious springs in the area, may be referred to by the name. It may be the 'Home Well' whose name may be related to the place name. 'Hama' is a derivative of the element 'Ham-' or 'Haem-' frequent in personal names.
Shown on an old map by Perrot 1823
- Hamp
Period - 19th century, early
a town in Hampshire, with a market on Saturday, 7m NE Portsmouth, and 66 W by S London.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, town - Bosmere Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Badeslade 1742
- settlement, town - Hampshire
Period - 1740s
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- Hampshire
Havant, a small Market-Town, the Market on [ ] weekly, and the Fair on [ ] yearly.
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, town - Portesdown Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Period - 17th century
Hanant, seated near Haling Island, once a small Market-town, but now disused.
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, hamlet - Bosmere Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Simmons 1643
- Hamshire
Period - 1630s-40s
in the S.E. sector of the thumbnail map; 55 miles from London
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, hamlet - Bosmere Hundred - Hantshire
The place is described in text Camden 1610
- Hantshire
Period - 1600s
From hence as the shoare fetcheth a compasse and windeth from Portes-bridge, wee had the sight of Havant a little mercate towne
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, town - Portesdowne Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Keer 1620
- Southampton
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, town - Southamtoniae
Listed in Domesday Book
- Boseberg Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
HAE TERRAE ... SVNT DE VICTV MONACHO. Wint. ... HAVEHVNTE ten. monachi de epatu. WINT. . Se~p tenuer~ ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Boseberg Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
see:- Gough Map
Period - 14th century (about 1360)
HMCMS:FA1998.49.7
blazon (approximate) - quarterly embattled ro and azure, four keys counterchanged a fleur de lsys for their bow (?)
The enbattling aludes to the old castle of Warblington, the keys are taken from the arms of the monks of Jumieges whose abbey held Hayling Island, the fleur de lys and the colours were prominent on the arms of Montgomeri who held lands locally; two saxon warriors are supporters, their hammers pun on the name of Hama from which the name Havant comes via Haman Funta, the well of Hama; the eagle in the crest refers to a french Eagle captured at Waterloo for Waterlooville, and sprigs of oak for Leigh Park.
AVANT GARDE
motto - Vanguard, progress, and a pun on the town's name
