Old Hampshire Mapped
Leland's Hampshire 1635-43
Transcription (21)Hamble
Hamble, River
Hamble Haven
Botley
A 3. miles from Hamelehooke, that lyith as at the est point [of] the haven, goith a creke by n[orth east] up yn to the lande caullid com[monly Hamel]le Creeke: and of s[um Hamelle ha]ven, wheryn is a very fair rode for great shippes.
It takith name of a good fisschar toun caullid Hamelrise, that lyith about a mile ynward from the creke mouth of the lift hand by weste.
Minns:- Hamelrise, Hamel-en-le-rys or Hamble Rice, Hamble on the west side of the Hamble river. Here was the priory of St. Andrew, a cell to the Benedictines Abbey of Thiron near Chartres. After the suppression of alien priories, William of Wykeham acquired the revenues with which he endowed his two St. Mary Colleges.
This towne now longgith to the New College in Winchester. It longgid afore to a priorie of religious men in the same toune.
A 3. miles above Hamelrise at the very hedde of the creke is a good village caullid Budley or Botley.
And to this creeke by my estimation resortith the water cummyng from Bisshops Waltham, a praty tounlet a 3 miles of.
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