Whitchurch
county:
coords:
coords:
Hampshire
SU460478
51.14N 1.20W : lat'n'long
otherwise: hwitan cyrice, 909-12; hwitcyrcan, 900-999?; hwitciricean, 1001
WHITCHURCH
Old English '(the) white church'. The most likely interpretation is that the church was whitewashed. But Bede noted that 'Whithorn' in Wigtownshire was called about 730 'hwitan aerne' or 'candida casa'='white building' merely because it was stone built.
The place is described in text Cobbett 1830
Whitchurch is a small town, but famous for being the place where the paper has been made for the Borough-Bank!
...
... The turnpike road from Winchester to this place [Burghclere] comes ... then through WHITCHURCH, which lies on the Andover and London road, through Basingstoke. We did not take the cross-turnpike till we came to Whitchurch.
...
... Whitchurch, ... you begin to descend into the vale, in which this little town lies, and through which there runs that stream, which turns the mill of 'SQUIRE PORTAL, and which mill makes the Bank of England Note-Paper! ... the river of Whitchurch, which a man of threescore may jump across dry-shod, ...
Period - 19th century, early
a borough in Hampshire, with a market on Friday, and a manufacture of shaloons and serges. It is seated on the Test, near its source, 12m N Winchester, and 56 W by S London.
Test, or Tese, ... which rises near Whitchurch
Shown on an old map by Baker 1802
Period - 19th century, early
Whitchurch 56.
56 miles from London; drawing of village, church with tower.
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, town - Evinger Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
Shown on an old map by Badeslade 1742
- settlement, town, market town - Hampshire
Period - 1740s
sends 2 members [to Parliament] Fairs Oct: 14. Whitsun Mon:
The place is described in text Cox 1738
- Hampshire
Whitchurch, a Mayor, Market, and Borough-Town, not taken Notice of by Camden, from whence we may conclude that either it is of no great Antiquity, or that it was of little or no Repute in his Time. It is governed by a Mayor, and chooses Burgesses for Parliament, who are in this present Session 1716, General Carpenter and Thomas Vernon Esq;
The Town is in a mean Condition, yet has a Market on [ ] weekly, and two Fairs on October 23, and Whitsun-Monday.
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, town - Evinger Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
Shown on an old map by Ogilby 1675
- settlement, town - Hampshire
Period - 17th century
Whitchurch, an ancient, though poor Major and Borough-town; which hath an inconsiderable Market, and electeth Parliament men.
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, village - Evinger Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Simmons 1643
- Hamshire
Period - 1630s-40s
in the N. sector of the thumbnail map; 60 miles from London
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, village - Evinger Hundred - Hantshire
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- settlement, village - Evinger Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
Shown on an old map by Saxton 1575
- settlement, village - Southamtoniae
Listed in Domesday Book
- Evingare Hundred - Hantescire
Period - 11th century
HAE TERRAE ... SVNT DE VICTV MONACHO. Wint. ... Ipse ep~s ten. WITCERCE . Semp~ fuit in monasterio ...
Listed in Domesday Book
- Evingare Hundred - Hantscire
Period - 11th century
see:- Gough Map
Period - 14th century (about 1360)
