Ringwood
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Hampshire
SU149054
50.848N 1.780W : lat'n'long
otherwise: runcwuda, 955-958; rimucwuda, 955-14; rimecuda, 961; Rincvede, 1086
RINGWOOD, town and hundred
Ekwall suggests an unrecorded hypothetical Old English 'rimuc' derived from 'rima'='edge, border'. Ringwood would then be 'border wood', from its position outside the fringe of the New Forest. This is universally accepted. But since it is close to the border with Dorset (2.5 miles away), and since the border parishes have ben carved out of Ringwood, an open mind may be called for.
Shown on an old map by Perrot 1823
- Hamp
Period - 19th century, early
a town in Hampshire, with a market on Wednesday. It has a manufacture of worsted hose; and is famous for strong beer and ale. It is seated on the Avon, 30m SW Winchester, and 91 W by S London.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, town - Ringwood Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Badeslade 1742
- settlement, town - Hampshire
Period - 1740s
otherwise: Regnewood; Rinceived; Regnum; Wood of the Regni
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- Hampshire
Ringwood or Regnewood, in Domesday-Book called Rinceived, anciently named Regnum, and inhabited by a People, called by the Romans, Regni, as we may gather, not only by the Remainder of their Name in that of this Town, implying, The Wood of the Regni, but from the Course of Antoninus's Itinerary, the Places to and from it exactly answering the Distances therein mentioned.
That this Town was anciently a Place of some Eminency, seems probable from the adjacent Hundred, which derives its Name from it, but now it is of little Note but for its weekly Market, which is very much frequented, and is kept on Wednesday; but the Chief Commodities sold there, are Corn and Cattle. The Fair is on [ ]
Near this town the Duke of Monmouth, after his Army was routed at Sedgmoor, in July 1685, was taken in a Peace-Field, and with him the Lord Grey, and a German Count, who accompanied him, by the Lord Lumley, who carried them all Prisoners to this Town, and kept them there, till Orders came from the Council and King James II. to bring them up to London, where the Duke was soon after beheaded.
Ringwood / Was a place of some Eminency in ye Saxon times, is noted only at present for its Mt. on Wedn. for Corn, &c.
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, town - Ringwood Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- roman town, town
Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
- settlement, town - Hampshire
street map
Period - 17th century
Ringwood, a Town of some account in the time of the Saxons, seated near the Sea, and on a River; a large Town, and hath a great Market on Wednesdays for cattle, corn, and provisions.
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, town - Rinwood Hundred - Hantshire
otherwise: Ryngwood
Shown on an old map by Simmons 1643
- Hamshire
Period - 1630s-40s
in the S.W. sector of the thumbnail map; 86 miles from London
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, town - Rinwood Hundred - Hantshire
The place is described in text Camden 1610
- Hantshire
Period - 1600s
Regnewood or Ringwood, called in the Domesday booke of England Rincewood. Which, that it was the same REGNUM, the chiefe towne of the Regni whereof Antoninus maketh mention, the accompt of the distance from other places, the remaines of the name and the very signification thereof doe plainly prove. For, Ring-wed by that Saxon addition seemeth to signify the Wood of the Regni. A towne in ancient time of great fame, as maybe gathered by the Hundred adjoining, which is named thereof: but now it is a well frequented mercate towne and no better
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, town - Ringewood Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- roman town, town
Shown on an old map by Keer 1620
- Southampton
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, town - Southamtoniae
Period - 16th century
Listed in Domesday Book
- Rincuede Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
TERRA REGIS ... Ipse rex ten. in d~nio RINCVEDE . Tosti comes tenuit ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Rinwede Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
