Lyndhurst
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Hampshire
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otherwise: Linhest, 1086; Lindeherst, 1165; Lindhurst, 1196
LYNDHURST
Hypothetical Old English 'Lindhyrst'='lime wood'. Other references to the tree can be found in this district, eg 'Linwood' in Broomy Walk (about 1170 'Lyndewode'), 'Linford' in Ringwood (961 'lind ford'). The native limes are 'almost absent from southern England' (Rackham 1980: 237), and have disappeared from Lyndhurst because of soil impoverishment or wood pasture effects in forest areas (Rackham 1980: 242). Lime tends to form stands, and Lyndhurst probably therefore had a lime wood rather than a wood with a prominent lime.
Period - 19th century, early
a village in Hampshire, on the N side of the New Forest, 8m WSW Southampton. Here are the kings house and stables, the latter very large; and all the forest courts are held here.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - New Forest Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - New Forrest Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Newforrest Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Newforrest Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Newforrest Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
Listed in Domesday Book
- Bovere Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA REGIS ... Ipse rex ten. LINHEST . Jacuit in Ambresberie de firma regis ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Bovre Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
