South Ambersham

South Ambersham, Graffham
settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Graffham
West Sussex
SU9120
refce: HANTSLOC.t
Ambersham
otherwise: aembresham; embresham, 963-12; Ambresham, 1166
refce: Coates 1989
AMBERSHAM, detached part of Steep, now parish in Sussex
Old English 'estate of AEmbre', the name apparently being from a side form of 'Ambre'='the Ambrones', though not necessarily in any tribal sense when used as a personal name. Absorbed into Sussex by the Act of 1844.
old map
 Amersham
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, hamlet - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
refce: Morden 1695
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old map
 Amersham
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, hamlet - Eastmeane Hundred Hundred - Hantshire
refce: Blaeu 1645
(BLA1SU92.jpg)
old map
 Amersham
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, hamlet - Eastmeane Hundred - Hantshire
refce: Speed 1611
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old map
 Amersha~
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, hamlet - Holdshott Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
refce: Norden 1607
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   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001