Hook
Hook, Farehamcounty:
coords:
Hampshire
SU5005
otherwise: Houch, 1086; Hok', la, 1236; Hok, 1242
HOOK, parish near Titchfield
Old English 'hoc'='spur of land', ie: the one projecting into the marshes; or with reference to the small promontory at the mouth of the river Hamble.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Titchfield Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Badeslade 1742
- settlement, village - Hampshire
Period - 1740s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, hamlet - Waltham Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, hamlet - Titchfeild Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, hamlet - Titchfeild Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- church - Titchfeild Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Keer 1620
- Southampton
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, hamlet - Southamtoniae
The place is described in text Leland 1535-43
There is on the est side agayne it [Southampton haven] a place caullid Hamel hooke, wher be a 3. or 4. fisshars houses.
Minns says:- Hook or Houch, as it is spelt in Domesday, probably takes its name from the configuration of the land at this point, or possibly the hook shaped piece of water or creek now damned up at the mouth of the Hamble. ...
- Titchfield Estate
Minns's comment - a hamlet of a few cottages
