Ludshott Common

Ludshott Common, Bramshott and Liphook
settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Bramshott and Liphook
Hampshire
SU8535
refce: HANTSLOC.t

old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants XLIV.4

Ludshott
otherwise: Lidessete, 1086; Ledessete, 1230; Ludeschate, 1100-1135; Lydshute, 1356

refce: Coates 1989
LUDSHOTT, Domesday Book manor, common in Bramshott
Smith (English Place Name Elements I: 254) conjectures an Old English word or name for a hypothetical stream 'hlyde'='the loud one'; a form of this shape will account for the first element. The second is 'sceat'='nook, angle'. But no other case is known of 'sceat' preceded by an ancient place name. The typical name has a tree- or plant name in first place. No plant name 'hlyde' is known.

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001