Kings Enham
Kings Enham, Andovercounty:
coords:
Hampshire
SU3648
otherwise: Eanham, 1000-1049?; Enham, 1167
ENHAM, two villages, one now a suburb of Andover
Probably hypothetical Old English 'Eanham'='lamb estate'. The hypothetical word 'ean' is not on record, but the verb 'eanian'='to lamb' is found. Part of Enham was in the royal estate of Andover, hence King's Enham (1379 'Enham regis') and the rest a separate manor, held by Matthew de Columbers who died in 1273 seized of a knight's fee and a half, hence Knight's Enham (1316 'Ennam militis' 1389 'Knyghtesenham'). The curious form in the time of Henry III 'Knythenesheneham' is hard to explain, but may in a garbled way suggest 'knight' in the plural (early Middle English 'knightene' in the genitive case), with a further '-s'.
Knight's Enham is now known as 'Enham Alamein'. A rehabilitation colony for ex-servicemen was set up here after the Great War and reendowed after the second World War as 'Alamein Village' by the government of Egypt in gratitude for the defeat of the German army at El Alamein. The name of the place was changed accordingly on the wave of postwar national sentiment.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Andover Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, hamlet - Andover Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, hamlet - Andover infra Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Listed in Domesday Book
- Andovre Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA TAINORV~ REGIS ... SARIZ ten. de rege ETHAM . Aluuin tenuit de rege E in alod~ ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Andovre Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA TAINORV~ REGIS ... ALSI [berchenistr] ten. de rege ETHAM . Vlueua tenuit in alodiu~ de rege E ...
