Kilmeston
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU5926
Kilmiston
otherwise: cenelemestune; kenelmestune, 961-12; cylmestuna, 900-999?
KILMESTON, KILMISTON
Old English 'Co/enhelm's farm'. 'Co/enhelm' is an ordinary Anglo Saxon period name, but there may be a connection with the cult of the boy-saint Kenelm. The modern pronunciation is indicated in the 1586 spelling 'Kimpston' (1611 'Kimston').
otherwise: Kimston
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
CAME from Alresford to Hambledon, through Titchbourne, Cheriton, Beauworth, Kilmston and Exton. This is all a high, hard, dry, fox-hunting country.
... A bridle road over some fields and through a coppice took me to Kilmston, formerly a large village, but now mouldered into two farms, and a few miserable tumble-down houses for the labourers. Here is a house, that was formerly the residence of the landlord of the place, but is now occupied by one of the farmers. This is a fine country for fox-hunting, and Kilmston belonged to a Mr. Ridge who was a famous fox-hunter, and who is accused of having spent his fortune in that way. ... The place now belongs to a Mr. Long, whose origin I cannot find out.
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... Cheriton and Kilmston and Hambledon and the like have been beggared for the purpose of giving tax-eaters the means of making 'vast improvements, Ma'am'.
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A little to our right, as we came along, we left the village of KIMSTON, where SQUIRE GRAEME once lived, as was before related. Here, too, lived a 'SQUIRE RIDGE, a famous fox-hunter, at a great mansion, now used as a farm-house; and it is curious enough, that this 'SQUIRE'S son-in-law, one GUNNER, an attorney at Bishop's Waltham, is steward to the man who now owns the estate.
Thos. Ridge Esqr.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Fawley Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695 (perhaps)
- settlement, hamlet - Fawley Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Fawley Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Fawley Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607 (perhaps)
- settlement, village - Fawley Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
Listed in Domesday Book
- Falelei Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
Eldred ten. de epo CHELMESTUNE . Femina sua tenuit
Listed in Domesday Book
- Falelei Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA WINTONIENS. EP~I ... Ispe ep~s ten. CHELMESTVNE . Goduin tenuit de ep~o ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Falelie Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
