Old Hampshire Gazetteer, Lainston, Sparsholt

	Lainston Lainston, Sparsholt
	settlement
parish: county: coords:	Sparsholt Hampshire SU4431
refce:	HANTSLOC.t

old map:	25inch County Series map -- Hants XL.11

	Lainston otherwise: Layneston, 1252; Leneyston, 1256; Lewyneston, 1280
refce:	Coates 1989 LAINSTON, house in Sparsholt Possibly Old English/Middle English 'Leofwine's farm', but the spelling of 1280 pointing in this direction is isolated. Otherwise maybe contains Middle English 'leyne' and amounts to 'farm of the (arable) great field', but the implications of that are unclear. 'Leyne' is found in Kent and Sussex.

Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001