Hook

settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Hook
Hampshire
SU7254
refce: HANTSLOC.t

old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants XIX.3

Hook
otherwise: Hoc, 1223

refce: Coates 1989
HOOK, modern parish carved out of Nateley Scures, Newnham and Odiham
Originally applied to a wood, this is Old English 'hoc/' Middle English 'hok' in a topographical sense like 'angle, nook'; Hook is on land between two left tributaries of the Whitewater.

old map
Hook
Shown on an old map by Baker 1802

Period - 19th century, early
refce: Baker 1802 (opp p.51)
Hook 38.
38 miles from London; drawing of a village.

old map
Hook
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Odiham Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
refce: Harrison 1788
(HAR1SU75.jpg)

old map
Hook
Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
- settlement, village - Hampshire
refce: Ogilby 1675 (pl.25)
(OG25SU75.jpg)

domesday
Houch
Listed in Domesday Book
- Ticefelle Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
refce: Domesday Book 1086 (23.14)
TERRA HVGONIS DE PORTH ... Ipse H ten. HOVCH et German de eo . Norman tenuit de rege E ...

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001