Penton Grafton
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU3247
otherwise: Penitone, 1086; Penitone Grefteyn, 1200-1299?; Penytun Gresteyn, 1269
PENTON GRAFTON, part-manor, hamlet in Weyhill
That part of PENTON manor not held by the Meisys, but by the abbey of Grestain in Normandy (so in Domesday Book; 1167 'Peninton Abbatis'). There is a persistent spelling tradition with 'f' for 's' eg 1316 'Croftyn' though Gover says that this 'must be a late mistake due to mis-reading of the 17th and early 18th century printed 's'. The prominence as landowners of the Earls of Grafton may have had something to do with the association; or there has been an association with the 'Grafton' villages 9 miles NW in Wiltshire.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, village - Andover Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, hamlet - Andover extra Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645 (perhaps)
- settlement, hamlet - Andover Without Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611 (perhaps)
- settlement, hamlet - Andover without Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
Listed in Domesday Book
- Andovre Hundred - Hantescire - Grestain Abbey
Period - 11th century
TERRA AECCL~AE DE GREISTAIIN ... ABBATIA de Greistan ten. de rege PENITONE . Eddid regina tenuit ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Andovere Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
