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North Warnborough
North Warnborough, Odiham |
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Odiham
Hampshire
SU7351
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HANTSLOC.t
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25inch County Series map -- Hants XIX.12 |
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North Warnborough
Warnborough, North
otherwise: weargeburnan?, 973-974; weargeburninga?, 1046-16;
Northwargheburne, 1276
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Coates 1989
WARNBOROUGH (NORTH), WARNBOROUGH GREEN, village/hamlet in Odiham
WARNBOROUGH (SOUTH), parish
Hypothetical Old English 'Weargaburna'='felons' stream', where malefactors
were drowned. (Cf Kristensson (1981) Arngart (1983), Sandred (1984) for
discussion of a similar, though not historically identical, name in Norfolk,
once thought to have a common origin with 'Warnborough'.) Puzzlingly, there is
not a trace of a stream now at South Warnborough (below 'Wells Hill') to which
the earliest forms appear to refer. North Warnborough is on the river
Whitewater. Grundy (1927: 286-7) confidently identifies the Old English forms
with South Warnborough; however there is no boundary clause to the relevant
charter and considerable uncertainty about the course of the bounds written in
1046. We must reckon with the original Warnborough being N., or that N. and S.
once formed some kind of unit.
In the 13th century both place names are rationalized as containing Middle
English 'burgh' and the 'n' migrates to the first syllable to compensate.
Occasional forms are found with 'gh' or 'n' in both elements (1291
'Suthwargheborgh' 1235 'Warnburn').
A reason to pause before accepting this rather spectacular etymology
wholesale is that no origin is known for the common dialect word
'werg'='willow', which makes good sense with 'burna'.
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Nth. Warnborough
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Odiham Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
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Harrison 1788
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N. Warnboro
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Barmanspit Hundred - Hantshire
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Blaeu 1645
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N. Warnboro
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, hamlet - Barmanspit Hundred - Hantshire
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Speed 1611
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