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Picket Post
Picket Post, Burley |
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settlement
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parish:
county:
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Burley
Hampshire
SU1906
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HANTSLOC.t
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old map: |
25inch County Series map -- Hants LXXI.5 |
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Picket Post
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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.
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old map
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Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
- post, cross - Hampshire
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Ogilby 1675 (pl.97)
drawing of a cross here, where Picket Post is today
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(OG97SU10.jpg)
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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 ...
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