Rowner

Rowner, Gosport
settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Gosport
Hampshire
SU5801
refce: HANTSLOC.t
old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXXXIII.5
Rowner
otherwise: ruwan oringa, 948-12; Ruenore; Rugenore, 1086
refce: Coates 1989
ROWNER
Old English 'rough bank'. The form from the Anglo Saxon period, from the bounds of Alverstoke means 'up to the boundary of the people of Rowner'. Hence also 'Fort Rowner'.
old map
 Rowner
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, town - Titchfield Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
refce: Harrison 1788
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old map
 Rowner
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Portesdown Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
refce: Morden 1695
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old map
 Rowner
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Titchfeild Hundred - Hantshire
refce: Blaeu 1645
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old map
 Rowner
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Titchfeild Hundred - Hantshire
refce: Speed 1611
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old map
 Rowner
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Titchfeild Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
refce: Norden 1607
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description
 The place is described in text Leland 1535-43
refce: Leland 1535-43
It is about a 7. miles from the west [point] of Portesmuth Haven to the [est] point of Hampton Haven, [and in th]e mi[dle wa]y almost betwixt [is a fisshar village] caullid ...
Minns says:- This village must be Rowner.
domesday
 Ruenore
Listed in Domesday Book
- Ticefelle Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
refce: Domesday Book 1086 (35.1)
TERRA WILL~I MALDVITH ... WILL~S maldoit ten. RVENORE . Coleman tenuit de rege E ...
   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001