Upton Grey
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Hampshire
SU6948
otherwise: Huppeton, 1100-1135; Upton, 1202
UPTON GREY
Old English/Middle English 'higher farm'. This name is a problem, for the whole of the eastern end of Bermondspit hundred is on a relatively level plateau varying between about 100 and 125 metres above sea level. If anything, the site of Upton Grey is fractionally lower than the surrounding area. It may be 'up' from the point of view of Hoddington manor in the same parish, but one has to go slightly down before one goes up! Perhaps we should take into account the mysterious phrase 'upicenes hlywan' in the bounds of the Hoddington charter of 1046, apparently referring to a barrow (Grundy 1927: 279), but I cannot make anything of it. (It is not by the river Itchen.)
The manor was acquired by John de Grey in about 1260, the family name deriving from 'Graye' in Normandy.
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
... we chose to wind down through Upton-Gray, Preston-Candover, Chilton-Candover, Brown-Candover, then down to Ovington, and into Winchester by the north entrance. ...
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Barmanstip Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Barmanspit Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, hamlet - Barmaspit Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, hamlet - Barmanspit Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- church - Bosmere Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
Listed in Domesday Book
- Odingetone Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
