Wherwell
county:
coords:
Hampshire
SU3841
otherwise: hwerwyl, 955-14; werewelle, 959-14; hwerwillom; hwaerwellan, 1052-11
WHERWELL, village and priory
Hypothetical Old English 'Hwerwiellas' literally 'cauldron springs or streams', hence 'bubbling streams'. The church and priory are on an island formed by the multiple channels of the merging rivers Test and Dever. The eddies in the Test are well known.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, village - Wherwell Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, village - Andover extra Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Horwel Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Horwell Hundred - Hantshire
The place is described in text Camden 1610
- Hantshire
Period - 1600s
Worwhell, where Queene Aelfrith built a Monasterie to expiate and make satisfaction for that most foule and hainous fact, wherwith so wickedly she had charged her soule by making away King Edward her husbands sonne [etc etc]
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, hamlet, house - Horwell Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
- Welford Hundred - Hantescire - Wherwell Abbey - Wherwell parish: - Hampshire
Period - 11th century
TERRA AECCL~AE DE WARWELLE ... ABBATIA de WARWELLE ten. tota~ uilla~ in qua aeccl~a sedet . Se~p tenuit ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Welford Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
