Ower
Ower, Fawleycounty:
coords:
Hampshire
SU4701
otherwise: Hore, 1086; Ore, 1284; Oure, 1327
OWER, manors/hamlets in Copythorne and Fawley
Old English 'ora'='bank, shore, foot of a slope'. Ower in Copythorne overlooks a right tributary of the river Blackwater, but not on a very marked slope, to judge by the OS map. This is the one that Morris identifies with Domesday Book 'Hore' in his Hampshire Domesday. Ower in Fawley, by the shore of Southampton Water, is probably the one meant by Gelling (1984: 179), who includes this as one of her coastal 'ora' place names (cf COPNOR).
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, hamlet - New Forrest Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
