|
Portchester
Portchester, Fareham |
|
settlement
|
parish:
county:
coords:
|
Fareham
Hampshire
SU6105
|
refce: |
HANTSLOC.t
|
|
old map: |
25inch County Series map -- Hants LXXV.10 |
|
|
Porchester
otherwise: porceastra, 904-12; porteceaster, 963-975;
Porcestre; Portcestre, 1086
|
refce: |
Coates 1989
PORCHESTER
The frequency of early forms showing 'Porte-' is slightly troubling, but
there can be little doubt that this is hypothetical Old English
'Portceaster'='[Roman] fortification/town at Port' where the first element is
the anglicized form of the Romano British name for Portsmouth Harbour.
|
|
old gazetteer
|
Period - 19th century, early
|
refce: |
Brookes 1815
a village in Hampshire, 4m N Portsmouth, at the upper end of the harbour,
between Fareham and Portsea island. It has an ancient castle, which has served,
of late years, for the reception of prisoners of war and ordnance
stores.
|
|
old map
|
Porchester
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Portsdown Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
|
refce: |
Harrison 1788
|
|
(HAR1SU60.jpg)
|
|
old map
|
Porchester
Shown on an old map by Badeslade 1742
- settlement, town - Hampshire
Period - 1740s
|
refce: |
Badeslade 1742
|
|
description
|
Port Peris
otherwise: Portchester; Portus Magnus
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- Hampshire
|
refce: |
Cox 1738
Port Peris, where, by Tradition, Vespasian first arrived. Our Ancestors
called it Port-Chester, not from Porta, a Saxon, but from Portus, an Harbour;
for Ptolemy calls it [ ], the spacious Harbour, from the Largeness of it; as
Pliny tells us, that there is a Place in Africa, called Portus Magnus, i. e. the
great Port.
... but when the Sea retiring from this Shore made the Harbour by Degrees
less commodious, the Inhabitants removed from hence to Portsey
|
|
old map
|
Portchester
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Portesdowne Hundred - Hantshire
|
refce: |
Blaeu 1645
|
|
(BLA1SU50.jpg)
|
|
table of distances
|
Porchester
Shown on an old map by Simmons 1643
- Hamshire
Period - 1630s-40s
|
refce: |
Simmons 1643
|
|
(SIM1SMAL.jpg)
|
|
old map
|
Portchester
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Portesdowne Hundred - Hantshire
|
refce: |
Speed 1611
|
|
(SPD1SU50.jpg)
|
|
description
|
Portchester
The place is described in text Camden 1610
- harbour - Hantshire
Period - 1600s
|
refce: |
Camden 1610
... a great creeke, within the more inward nooke or corner whereof sometimes
flourished Port-peris; (where, by report Vespasian landed) An haven towne which
our auncestours by a new name called Port-chester
And verily there remaineth yet a great Castell which hath a faire and
spatious prospect into the haven underneath. But when as the Ocean by
with-drawing it selfe, tooke away, by little and little the commodity of the
haven, the inhabitatnts flitted from thence into the Island Portsey adjoining
...
|
|
old gazetteer
|
Porchester
|
|
old map
|
porchestre
see:- Gough Map
Period - 14th century (about 1360)
|
refce: |
Gough Map
|
|
(GOUGH1S.jpg)
|
|
domesday
|
Portcestre
Listed in Domesday Book
- Portesdone Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
|
refce: |
Domesday Book 1086 (1.11)
In PORTCESTRE est pars alia hui M~ [Wimeringes] ...
|
|
domesday
|
Porcestre
Listed in Domesday Book
- Portesdon Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
|
refce: |
Domesday Book 1086 (35.4)
TERRA WILL~I MALDVITH ... Ipse Will~s ten. PORCESTRE . Tres libi. ho~es
tenuer~ de rege E ...
|
|
domesday
|
Portcestre
Listed in Domesday Book
- Portesdon Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
|
refce: |
Moody 1862 (Domesday)
|