Hiltingbury
Hiltingbury, Eastleighcounty:
coords:
Hampshire
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otherwise: Hiltyngebury, 1233; Heltyngbur', 1280; Hultyngbery, 1447
HILTINGBURY, suburb of Chandler's Ford
Apparently Old English 'fortification or manor house of the Hyltingas', a tribal name meaning 'dwellers at the hylte' or 'woodland'. This is highly doubtful both topographically and historically but the rare element 'hylte' is found also in SHIRRELL HEATH. A safer etymology might involve a Middle English formation meaning 'manor house (ie: the former 'Hiltonbury' OS 1 to 63360 map) at 'Hyltinge'' a place name fossilized in the dative case and meaning 'at the woodland'.
