Warsash

Warsash, Fareham
settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Fareham
Hampshire
SU4906
refce: HANTSLOC.t
old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXXIV.9
Warsash
otherwise: Weresasse, 1272; Weresasche, 1272-1307
refce: Coates 1989
WARSASH, submember of Hook parish
Hypothetical Old English 'Waeresaesc'='ash tree of a man called Waer'. Old English boundary clauses are known to contain references to trees associated with individual people; perhaps on the boundary of their estates. Alternatively it might be 'ash of/by the fish weir or fish trap'; on which objects cf Watts (1985).
old map
 Warsash
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Titchfield Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
refce: Harrison 1788
(HAR1SU40.jpg)
Warsashe
- Titchfield Estate
refce: Minns, G W, Rev: 1906: Remarks on an Old Map of a portion of the Ancient Parish of Titchfield: ProcHFC: 5: pp.203-209 (spellings as on the published map, a photolitho copy published by Hampshire Field Club, 1894; location 3)
place name
refce: Minns, G W, Rev: (1910s?): Leland in Hampshire: ProfHFC: 6 supplement: pp43-68
... Warsash ... Mr. Shore tells us - Shore:: Place Names of the County: ProcHFC: 3: p237- that names compounded with War do not refer to the sites of battles but are descriptive of a flow of water, and that such words as Ashe, &c., are derived from the Celtic water word 'Ache,' so Warsash would be a duplicate water word.
   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001