Shedfield
settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Shedfield
Hampshire
SU5513
refce: HANTSLOC.t
old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXVI.8
Shedfield
otherwise: scida felda, 956-12; Schidefeld, 1256
refce: Coates 1989
SHEDFIELD, modern parish carved out of Droxford
Old English 'scid' meant 'split wood, billet', 'shingle' or 'board', and Ko'keritz (1940: 179-80) suggests that Shide (IOW) has a name embodying this word in the sense 'footbridge'. The present name means 'open land associated with more than one scid' and the precise interpretation is unclear. A Roman road (Margary 420) crosses four minor streams close to Shedfield (within the parish). Maybe fording them was assisted by boards at some stage in their existence.
old map
 Shidfield
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Waltham Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
refce: Harrison 1788
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old map
 Shidfield
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, hamlet - Waltham Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
refce: Morden 1695
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old map
 Shidfeild
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, hamlet - Mansbridg Hundred - Hantshire
refce: Blaeu 1645
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old map
 Shidfeild
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, hamlet - Mansbridg Hundred - Hantshire
refce: Speed 1611
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old map
 Shidfeild
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- house - Mansbridge Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
refce: Norden 1607
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old map
 Shidfelde
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, hamlet - Southamtoniae
refce: Saxton 1575
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   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001