Preston Candover
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU6041
otherwise: cendefer, 880-885; candeverre, 903-16; Candevre; Candovre, 1086
CANDOVER, three parishes
The parishes take their name from the stream whose name (following Ekwall) may have been from hypothetical British 'Caniodubri'='beautiful waters'.
The three specifiers come into use for the separate parishes/manors in the 13th century. Preston Candover is 1262 'Prestecandevere' clearly hypothetical Old English 'Preostacandefer'='priests' Candover'. Gover speculates that the monks of Southwick Priory are referred to. Domesday Book states merely (29,2) that 'clerici' hold it and (69,8) that Edwin the priest holds a virgate from the king there. From 1255 forms like 'Preston Candovere' are found, suggesting an alternative name deriving from hypothetical 'Preostatun'='priests' farm', therefore perhaps parallel with the hypothetical 'Cildatun' mooted above. The late form 1442 'Preston in Candeveresdene'='Preston in the valley of the Candover' seems to be unique.
Either the 'tun-' forms are rationalizations of earlier forms in the genitive plural '-a' or they represent alternative Old English place names which are not recorded till Middle English times. This matter is still to be resolved.
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
... we chose to wind down through Upton-Gray, Preston-Candover, Chilton-Candover, Brown-Candover, then down to Ovington, and into Winchester by the north entrance. ...
... Chalk is the favourite soil of the yew-tree; and at Preston-Candover there is an avenue of yew-trees, probably a mile long, each tree containing, as nearly as I can guess, from twelve to twenty feet of timber, which, as the reader knows, implies a tree of considerable size. They have probably been a century or two in growing; but, in any way that timber can be used, the timber of the yew will last, perhaps, ten times as long as the timber of any other tree that we grow in England.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, village - Barmanstip Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, hamlet - Barmanspit Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Barmaspit Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Barmanspit Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Bosmere Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
Listed in Domesday Book
- Bermesplet Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA COMITIS ROGERII ... CANDOVRE ten. clerici de comite . Aluric tenuit de Haraldo ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Bermesplet Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA TAINORV~ REGIS ... EDWIN [pbr] ten. de rege una~ v. in CANDEVRE . Isd tenuit de rege E in alodiu~ ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Bermesplet Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA TAINORV~ REGIS ... CHEPING ten. CANDEVRE de rege . Sberne tenuit de regina Eddid ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Bermesplet Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA WILL~I MALDVITH ... Ipse Will~s ten. CANDEVRE . Duo libi. ho~es tenuer~ de rege E ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Bermesplet Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA RADVLFI DE MORTIMER ... Ipse Rad. ten. CANDOVRE et Oidelard de eo . Cheping tenuit de rege E in alodiu~ ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Boseberg Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA HVGONIS DE PORTH ... Ipse H ten. CANDEVRE et Anschitil de eo . Goduin tenuit de rege E ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Bermesplet Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
