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Soke
Soke, Winchester |
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settlement
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parish:
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Winchester
Hampshire
SU4829
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HANTSLOC.t
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25inch County Series map -- Hants XLI.1325inch County Series
map -- Hants XLI.13 |
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old map
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Soak
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, hamlet - Fawley Hundred - Hantshire
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Blaeu 1645
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(BLA1SU42.jpg)
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old map
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Soak
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, hamlet - Fawley Hundred - Hantshire
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Speed 1611
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(SPD1SU42.jpg)
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description
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Soken, The
The place is described in text Leland 1535-43
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Leland 1535-43
Ther is a suburbe at the est gate of sum caullid the Soken: and is the
biggest of al the suburbes longging to the cyte of Winchester.
Minns says:- The Soke, so called from the Saxon soc, which signifies a free
domain, the independent jurisdiction of the Bishop with its own Courts and a
taxation probably lighter than that within the city.
In this suburbe be 2. paroche chirchis: ...
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