Ramsdell

Ramsdell, Wootton St Lawrence
settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Wootton St Lawrence
Hampshire
SU5957
refce: HANTSLOC.t

old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants X.10

Ramsdell
otherwise: Ramesdela, 1170; Ramesdelle, 1248

refce: Coates 1989
RAMSDELL, hamlet in Wootton St Lawrence
Very likely hypothetical Old English 'Hramsdell'='dell where wild garlic (Old English 'hramse') grew'. There is a tiny valley SW of the place where a stream rises. The element 'hramse' often appears in place names in forms with a vowel between the 'm' and 's'.

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001