Netley Marsh
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU3312
otherwise: natan leaga, 508-9; Nateleg', 1248
NETLEY MARSH
It is now customary to associate the form in the Old English Chronicle (A- and E- versions) with this place, despite the implication that the name went underground for 700 years. Certainly hypothetical 'Natan leah' cannot have been far from here if 'Cerdicesford/Certicesford' in the same annal refers to CHARFORD. The story the Chronicle gives for the name is pure fabrication, however; the annalist says the name is that of a Welsh king called 'Natanleod, Nazaleod' who was killed here with 5000 men by Cerdic and Cynric, 'in consequence of which the district was called Natanleag/Nazanleog ...'. This is not a W personal name but the name of a wood, 'wet wood', like NATELEY.
'Netley Marsh' appears as such on maps from 1759.
otherwise: Nutley
The place is described in text Cox 1738
... Prince Natan's Country, which seems still to be preserved in the Town of Netley or Nutley, about which Town it seems to have been; and this Place perhaps was a principal Town in it. ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Rodbrige Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
