Houghton
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU3432
otherwise: hohtuninga, 982-12; Hoghtone, 1171
HOUGHTON
Old English 'farm by the heel or spur', a common name type. The projecting feature at Houghton church does not look significant, but there is a tongue of land jutting Northeast in the North of the parish towards Stockbridge. 'Houghton Drayton' (1267 'Drayton') contains an element, Old English 'draeg' sometimes meaning 'portage'. A well marked route, now with bridges, crosses the 3 branches of the Test here to King's Somborne where the hundred met. No ford is on record here, so goods would have to be manhandled to King's Somborne not taken by cart if the route via Horsebridge was to be avoided twice the distance, round the far side of John of Gaunt's deer park. 'Draeg' may, however, mean 'place where boats can be dragged up out of the water'. There is a further 'Drayton' (995-1006 (14th century transcript) 'Draegtune)' in Barton Stacey, where again the Test flows in several channels.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, village - Buddlesgate Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, hamlet - Budlesgate Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Simmons 1643
- Hamshire
Period - 1630s-40s
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- village - Budlesgate Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Budlesgate Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
Listed in Domesday Book
- Sumburne Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA WINTONIENS. EP~I ... Ipse eps. ten. HOVSTVN in d~nio . Se~p fuit in epatu...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Sumburne Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
[... alii plures seruientes regis] ... ANSCHITIL fili Osmundi ten. de rege HOLSTVNE . Goduin tenuit de rege E ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Sumburne Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA TVRTINI CAMERARIJ ... TVRSTIN camerai ten. HOLSTVNE . Algar et Eduuard tenuer~ de rege E ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Sumburne Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA HVGONIS DE PORTH ... Ipse H ten. HOLSTVNE et Heldered de eo . Goduin tenuit de rege E ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Sumburne Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA COMITIS ROGERII ... Turald ten. de com~ HOLSTVNE . Osmund tenuit de rege E ...
