Wey, River

Wey, Southern
river
parish:
county:
coords:
Bramshott and Liphook
Hampshire
SU8732
county:

Surrey

parish:
parish:
parish:
county:

Headley
Lindford
Whitehill
Hampshire

refce: JandMN

old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants XLV.9

Wey
otherwise: waie; waiemuthe, 672-674; wegan, 956-1225; Waie, 1190-1193

refce: Coates 1989
WEY, river
A pre-English river name duplicated in the 'Wye' and the Dorset 'Wey'. Celtic origin is not provable; rather from some language spoken in England before British. Ekwall (1928) derives it from the hypothetical Indo European root 'uegh-'='move', and postulates the only philologically convincing way of linking the phonology of 'Wey' with that of 'Wye'.

old map
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- river - Alton Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
refce: Harrison 1788
(HAR1SU83.jpg)

old map
Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
- river - Hampshire
refce: Ogilby 1675 (pl.30)
(OG30SU83.jpg)

old map
see:- Gough Map

Period - 14th century (about 1360)
refce: Gough Map
Identified from Farnham, flowing from an area east of Petersfield; the two tributaries to this system shown on the map could possibly be the River Slea and Oakhanger Stream; the system is not simple.
(GOUGH1S.jpg)

   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001