Picket Post

Picket Post, Burley
settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Burley
Hampshire
SU1906
refce: HANTSLOC.t

old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXXI.5

Picket Post

refce: Coates 1989
PICKET POST, hamlet in Burley
Thus in 1759, but spelt 'picked' 1789, 1794 etc. 'Pointed post', cf PICKET PIECE. Reason unclear, maybe a boundary mark between Ellingham and Burley.

old map
Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
- post, cross - Hampshire
refce: Ogilby 1675 (pl.97)
drawing of a cross here, where Picket Post is today
(OG97SU10.jpg)


refce: Kingsbury, A H: 1894: History of Ringwood and Guide to the Neighbourhood: Brown, Charles (Ringwood, Hampshire)
... this once well-known forest tryst. A picket of soldiers was formerly stationed here to suppress the poachers, smugglers, and other lawless folk of olden days ...

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001