Tangley
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU3252
otherwise: Tangelea, 1174; Tangelie, 1212
TANGLEY
Old English 'wood/clearing at the projecting point(s) of land' (see under 'tang' in Smith (English Place Name Elements II)). Tangley church stands on a small promontory between two small dry valleys, and there are slightly larger promontories on either side of this one. The first element may therefore be in the plural, as all the medieval spellings indicate.
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
... I got, at one time, a little out of my road, in, or near, a place called TANGLEY, I rode up to the garden-wicket of a cottage, and asked the woman, who had two children, and who seemed to be about thirty years old, which was the way to LUDGARSHALL, which I knew could not be more than about four miles off. She did not know! A very neat, smart, and pretty woman; but, she did not know the way to this rotten-borough which was, I was sure, only about four miles off!
'Well, my dear good woman,' said I, 'but you have been at LUDGERSHALL?' - 'No.' - 'Nor at ANDOVER?' (six miles another way) - 'No.' - 'Nor at MARLBOROUGH?' (nine miles another way) - 'No.' - 'Pray, were you born in this house?' - 'Yes.' - 'And, how far have you ever been from this house?' - 'Oh! I have been up in the parish, and over to Chute.' That is to say, the utmost extent of her voyages had been about two and a half miles! Let no one laugh at her, and, above all others, let not me, who am convinced, that the facilities, which now exist of moving human bodies from place to place, are amongst the curses of the country, the destroyers of industry, of morals, and, of course, of happiness. It is a great error to suppose, that people are rendered stupid by remaining always in the same place. This was a very acute woman, and as well behaved as need to be. ...
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Pastrow Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Badeslade 1742
- settlement, village - Hampshire
Period - 1740s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Pastrow Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Pastrae Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Pastrae Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, hamlet - Pastrae Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
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