Rhinefield

Rhinefield, Brockenhurst
settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Brockenhurst
Hampshire
SU2502
refce: HANTSLOC.t
old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXXIX.3
Rhinefield
otherwise: Ryefeld, 1352; Riefelde, 1353
refce: Coates 1989
RHINEFIELD, modern parish carved out of Brockenhurst
Hypothetical Old English/Middle English 'Rygefeld'='rye open land'. Gover suggests that the first element may really be the Old English adjective 'rygen'='rye grown', but forms in '-n' do not appear till the late 15th century (1490 'Rynefeld'). A Middle English origin for this alternative formation is therefore certain: hypothetical Middle English 'Rienfeld'.
Later irrelevantly associated with either the 'rhines' or drainage ditches of the Somerset Levels or the European river.
   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001