Hurstbourne Priors
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU4346
otherwise: neotheran hysseburnan, 873-888; hysseburnan, 900-11
HURSTBOURNE, two parishes/manors, PRIORS and TARRANT
Either hypothetical Old English 'Hysseburna'='tendril stream' (in relation to some unidentified water plant, ?water crowfoot) or hypothetical 'Hyssa burna'='stream of the sons/youths'. Hurstbourne Priors is distinguished in Anglo Saxon times as 'Nether Hurstbourne', from being lower down what is now called the BOURNE RIVULET. It is HURSTBOURNE PRIORS in 1167 ('Hesseburna Prioris'); it belonged to the prior of St Swithin's, Winchester. From 1602 it appears as 'Down Hursborne' 1707 Down Husband. Hurstbourne Tarrant is 1242 'Huphusseburn'' and this name is current again later (1719, 1822 'Up Husband'). In the Middle Ages it was HURSTBOURNE TARRANT, as it is now, from being granted to Tarrant Abbey (Dorset) by Henry III. Its former royal ownership is remembered in 1291 'Husseburne Regis' 1628 'Kings Hursborne'. The Domesday Book spelling 'Esseborne' is preserved in the name of a local hotel.
otherwise: Down-hurstbourne; Hursperne
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
Then there are two Hurstbournes, one above and one below this village of Bourne. Hurst means, I believe, a Forest. There were, doubtless, one of those on each side of Bourne; and, when they became villages, the one above was called Up-hurstbourne, and the one below Down-hurstbourne; which names have become Uphusband and Downhusband. The lawyers, therefore, who, to the immortal honour of high-blood and Norman descent, are making such a pretty story out for the Lord Chancellor, relative to a Noble Peer who voted for the Bill against the Queen, ought to leave off calling the seat of the noble person Hursperne; for it is at Downhurstbourne where he lives, ...
Shown on an old map by Baker 1802
Period - 19th century, early
Husbourne. 58.
About 58 miles from London; drawing of village, church with tower.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, village - Evinger Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Evinger Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Evinger Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
- settlement, village - Hampshire
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Evinger Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Simmons 1643
- Hamshire
Period - 1630s-40s
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Evinger Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Evinger Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
Listed in Domesday Book
- Evingare Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
HAE TERRAE ... SVNT DE VICTV MONACHO. Wint. ... Ipse eps. ten. EISSEBVRNE . Se~p fuit in monasterio ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Evingare Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
