Hurstbourne Tarrant
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU3853
otherwise: Hissaburnam, 786-793; 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: Up-hurstbourne
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
AT Uphusband, a little village in a deep dale, about 5 miles to the North of Andover, and about 3 miles to the South of the Hills at Highclere. The wheat is sown here, and up, and, as usual, at this time of year, looks very beautiful.
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At Uphusband. At this village, which is a great thoroughfare for sheep and pigs, from Wiltshire and Dorsetshire to Berkshire, Oxfordshire, and away to the North and North East, we see many farmers from different parts of the country; ...
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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.
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The village of Uphusband, the legal name of which is Hurstbourne Tarrant, is, as the reader will recollect, a great favourite with me, not the less so certainly on account of the excellent free-quarter that it affords.
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... So this Up-hurstbourne (called so because higher up the valley than the other Hurstbournes) the flat part of the road to which, from the north, comes in between two side-hills, is in as narrow and deep a dell as any place that I ever saw. The houses of the village are, in great part, scattered about, and are amongst very lofty and fine trees; and, from many, many points round about, from the hilly fields, now covered with the young wheat, or with scarcely less beautiful sainfoin, the village is a sight worth going many miles to see.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Pastrow Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- Hampshire
Hosband-Tarrant, so called because the Manor of it belonged, before the Suppression of the Abbies, to the Monastery of Tarrant in Dorsetshire; but being in King Edward VI.'s Possession, Reg 1. he, by the Advice of the Lord Protector and his Council, granted it with several other Lands and Rents in the Manor of Bramhill, and the Fee-Farm Rent of Basingstoke, together with Wardlame Park in this County, and in other Counties, unto Sir William Pawlet Knt. Lord St. John, great Master of his Houshold, and to his Heirs and Assigns for ever, for the Maintenance of the Fortress of Leatly in the said County, and finding one Captain, one Porter, one Gunner, and six Soldiers.
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Pastrow Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Pastrae Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Pastrae Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Pastrae Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Keer 1620
- Southampton
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
Listed in Domesday Book
- Esseborne Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA REGIS ... ESSEBORNE ten. rex in d~mio . De firma regis E fuit ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Esseburne Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
