Tichborne
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU5730
otherwise: ticceburna, 909-12; ticceburnan, 938-12; Ticheburne, 1235
TICHBORNE
Old English 'kid stream', containing the genitive plural of an unattested relative ('ticce') of the word 'ticcen'='kid'. (Cf TITCHFIELD, TISTED.) It may be hypothetical 'Ticcea' a masculine nickname based on the word in question. The stream is the upper course of the river Itchen. However 'burna' on the chalk downs, often means an intermittent stream, which the Itchen here is not. Did a winterbourne ever run down the valley from Gander Down? Or is the reference to a side channel of the Itchen, which divides for much of its length (cf TWYFORD)?
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
CAME from Alresford to Hambledon, through Titchbourne, Cheriton, Beauworth, Kilmston and Exton. This is all a high, hard, dry, fox-hunting country. .... the name of the village, which, however, partly takes its name from the bourne that runs down the valley [Itchen].
... In coming along you see Titchbourne church away to the right, on the side of the hill, a very pretty little view; and this, though such a hard country, is a pretty country.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, village - Fawley Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- Hampshire
... Tichborn, a small Village, which has given Name to a Family of Reputation, of which John de Tichborn, and some others of that Name, have been Sheriffs of this County; but since the Reformation they have been obscure, because they have retained their Popish Principles ever since.
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Fawley Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Fawley Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Fawley Hundred - Hantshire
The place is described in text Camden 1610
- Hantshire
Period - 1600s
Neere heereunto [Alrefsord] is Tichborn, which I must not omit, for that it hath given name to a worshipfull and ancient familie.
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Fawley Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
