Swarraton
Swarraton, Northingtoncounty:
coords:
Hampshire
SU5637
otherwise: Swerwetone, 903-16; Serueton, 1135-1154; Sherueton, 1207; Swarweton?; Sarweton, 1242-1250
SWARRATON
Ekwall suggests that the first element is a reduced hypothetical form of 'Swaerwaed'='heavy ford' (ie: over the right bank tributary of the Itchen entering below Alresford). Grundy, following Bradley, suggests the first element is a pre-Old English stream name. The latter cannot be right; hypothetical Primitive Welsh 'sw-/su-' is nonexistent (Jackson 1953: 525-6). Perhaps it is hypothetical Old English 'Swearthwatun'='pelt farm', ie: farm supplying dressed or undressed animal skins, if Old English 'sweard, swearth'='pelt' is for hypothetical Germanic 'swardu-, swardw-' as Germanic and Baltic cognates seem to suggest. For a trace of the 'u/w' in the second syllable to be preserved, the name would have to be of high antiquity. The 'oldest' spelling is preserved only in a 16th century copy of a spurious document, but it looks a fair ancestor for the modern name.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Bondsborough Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Bondsborow Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Buntesboro Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Buntesboro Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Titchfeild Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
