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Langley
Langelie: Cola Hunter from his father Wulfgeat; Hugh de St. Quentin from Bishop of Bayeux in exchange for a mill.

Lasham
Esseham: King's land.
Lascham Wood.
Laverstoke
Lavrochestoche: St. Peter's, Winchester, formerly Wulfeva Beteslau, a woman who held it until her death when the king returned it to the church for the sake of his soul and that of his wife.
Laverstoke House and park. Paper for bank notes has been made here since the 17th century.
Leckford
Lecford / Lechtford: St. Peter's, Winchester. 1½ mills.

Linkenholt
Linchehou: St. Peter's, Gloucester.
Tudor manor house.
Liss
Lis: St. Mary's, Winchester bafore and after 1066. Mill.
Small town.
Litchfield
Liveselle: Fatherling from Hugh de Port.
The Seven Barrows, Bronze Age burial mounds are to the north.
Little Ann
Anna: Wherwell Abbey before and after 1066. 2 mills.
Prehistoric fort on nearby Bury Hill.
Little Somborne
Sumburne: Bernard Pancevolt.
Manor house in parkland.
Littleton (in Kimpton)
Liteltone: Hugh de Port.
Littleton Copse.
Lockerley
Locherlega / Locherslei: Hugh de Port; Archbishop Thomas (a chapel); Wulfric and Alfwy from the king. Mill.
Manor house; mill; farm.
Lomer
Lammere: Roald from St. Peter's, Winchester.

Longstock
Stoches: St. Mary's, Winchester. Mill.
Single main street lined with period houses.
Long Sutton
Sudtune: Thurstan from Bishop of Winchester.
Partly Tudor farmhouse.
Ludshott
Lidessette: Hugh de Port. Mill.
Manor; Ludshott Common.
Lychpit
Lichepet: Hugh from St. Peter's, Winchester.
2 burial mounds in Little Basing.
Lymington
Lentune: The Earl
[Roger]
himself holds 1 hide in LYMINGTON and Fulkwin from him. Leofing held it jointly. Then
[it answered]
for 1 hide, now for ½
[hide]
, because the woodland is in the
[New]
Forest. Land for 2 ploughs. 1 villager, 2 slaves and 3 smallholders have 1 plough. Meadow, 4 acres. Value before 1066, 20s; later and now 15s.
Small town; tidal harbour.
History of Lymington (external site)

Mapledurham
Malpedresham: King's land, formerly Queen Matilda, and Albold Cook and Theobald from the king. Church, 3 mills.
Mapledurham Farm.
Mapledurwell
Mapledruwelle: Hubert de Port. 2 mills.

Marchwood
Merceode: Alwin from the king, formerly Wulfgeat his father.
Scattered, farm.
Martyr Worthy
Ordie: Bishop of Winchester's monks before and after 1066. Church, mill.
Partly Norman church.
Mattingley
Matingelege: Alfsi son of Brictsi from the king. Mill.

Meon
Mene: Bishop of Winchester.
Farm.
Meonstoke
Menestoche(s): King's land; Bishop of Winchester. 2 mills.
Attractive.
Micheldever
Miceldevre: Herbert the Chamberlain; Odo the Steward, Alfsi, Aldred, Waleran Hunter and Siward Hunter, the pre-Conquest holder, from St. Peter's, Winchester.
Saxon burial ground at Norsbury Ring.
Michelton
Mulceltone:
Lost.
Middleton
Middletune: Wherwell Abbey. 2 mills, fishery for the hall.
Farm; Lower Mill.
Midgham
Mingeham: Alfwy from the king; Picot from Edeva, the king's thane.
Farm; some houses.
Milford
Melleford: In the New Forest. Wulfgar and Aelfric from the king. Mill.
Now the town of Milford-on-Sea.
Millbrook
Melebroc: Bishop of Winchester's monks.
District of Southampton.
Milton
Mildetune: William de Chernet from Hugh de Port.
Now the towns of Old and New Milton.
Minley
Mindeslei: Alfsi from the king.
Manor house near Minley Wood.
Minstead
Mintestede: In the New Forest. Sons of Godric Malf.
The Rufus Stone marks the spot where William II was killed.
Monk Sherbourne
Sireborne: Hugh de Port from Bishop of Bayeux.

Monxton (Anne)
Anne: King's land. Mill.

Mottisfont
Mortelhunte / Mortesfunde: Archbishop Thomas (church); Edwulf (a dwelling) from the king.
18th century Mottisfont Abbey incorporates the remains of a 12th century Augustinian priory.

Nateley
Nataleie: Ansketel from Hugh de Port. Mill.
Now 2 villages, Up Nately and Nately Scures.
Neatham
Neteham: King's land. 8½ mills.

Nether Wallop
Alia Wallope: King's land; Alfsi son of Brictsi from the king. 3 mills, salthouse, 2 churches. 10s worth of honey in the King's forest.
Mill; 14th century church; Iron Age fort on Danebury Hill.
Netley
Latelie: Richard Poynant. Church.
Small town with the ruins of Cistercian Netley Abbey.
Newton Stacey
Niwetone: William FitzManni with his wife.
Close to a Roman road.
Newton Valence
Newentone: Thurstan FitzRolf. Church, 2 mills.
13th century church; manor house.
North Baddesley
Bedeslei: Ralph de Mortimer. Church.
Church. The manor house walls contain part of a Knights' Hospitallers building.
North Charford
Cerdeford: Ranulf from Edward of Salisbury; Alfwy son of Thurber from the king. 2 mills. 1250 eels.
Site of a Saxon settlement.
North Stoneham
Stan(e)ham: St. Peter's, Winchester. Church, 2 mills.
North Stoneham Park.
Norton (in Selbourne)
Nortone: Robert from Hugh de Port; Ralph de Mortimer.
Farm.
Norton (in Wonston)
Nortune: Odo from the king. Church, mill.
18th century Norton Manor; lake.
Nursling
Notesselinge: Bishop of Winchester's monks. Church, mill.
Nursling Mill; 14th century church.
Nutley
Noclei: Henry the Treasurer; Geoffrey the Marshall.

Oakhanger
Acangre: Richard from Edwin, the king's thane.

Odiham
Odiham: King's land, formerly Earl Harold. 8 mills, 4 churches.
Country town with a 14th century church.
Otterbourne
Otreburne: Ralph de Mortimer. Church, fishery.

Otterwood
Otreorde: In the New Forest. Thorbert Hunter; Aelfric.
Includes Otterwood Gate.
Outwick
Otoiche: Jocelyn from Waleran Hunter.

Overton
Ovretune: Robert the Clerk and Gilbert from Bishop of Winchester. 2 churches, 4 mills.
Medieval church; old inn.
Over Wallop
Wallope: King's land, formerly Earl Harold; Hugh de Port and Boda from him; four Englishmen from the king. 3 mills.
Attractive.
Ower
Hore: Gilbert de Breteuil from Glastonbury Abbey.

Penton Grafton
Penitone: Grestain Church, formerly Queen Edith. Church.

Penton Mewsey
Penitone: Thorold from Earl Roger. Church.
Penton Lodge; park.
Pilley
Pistelei / Pistesla(e)i: In the New Forest. Hugh de Port from Hugh de St. Quentin.
15th century inn.
Pittleworth
Puteorde / Puteleorde: Archbishop Thomas (chapel); Humphrey the Chamberlain.
Farm.
Plaitford
Pleiteford: Edmund from the king. Mill.

Polhampton
Polemetune: Ralph FitzSifrid from Bishop of Winchester's monks; William Bertram. 2 mills, church.
Farm.
Popham
Poepham: Hugh de Port from St. Peter's, Winchester.
Manor house.
Porchester
Porcestre / Portcestre: King's land; Durand and Fulkhold from William Mauduit. Fishery for the hall, 3 mills.
Part of Portsmouth with the ruins of Henry II's castle, built within a Roman fort.
Preston Candover
Candevre / Candovre: Clerks from Earl Roger; Ansketel from Hugh de Port; Odilard from Ralph de Mortimer; William Mauduit; Chipping and Edwin the Priest from the king.

Quarley
Ferlei: King's land, formerly Earl Harold. Church.
Largely 12th century church, on the Domesday site, with a Saxon doorway.

Redbridge
Rodbrice: Hugh de Port. 2 mills.
Part of Southampton.
Ringwood
Rincvede: The King holds RINGWOOD in lordship. Earl Tosti held it. Then it answered for 28 hides; now for nothing. When the Sheriff acquired it, only 10 hides; the others were on
(the Isle of)
Wight; now 6 hides; the others are in the Forest. Land for 16 ploughs. In lordship 4 ploughs; 56 villagers and 21 smallholders with 13 ploughs; 1 riding man with ½ plough. A church to which ½ hide belongs in alms. 8 slaves; a mill at 22s; meadow, 105 acres. Value before 1066 £24; later £16; now £8 10s; however, it pays £12 10s at 20 (pence) to the ora. On the 4 hides which are in the Forest dwelt 14 villagers and 6 smallholders with 7 ploughs; a mill at 30d; woodland at 189 pigs from pasturage. Value of what the King has, £7 10s at face value.

Ripley
Riple: Hugh from Hugh de Port; Wulfgeat Hunter from the king.
Farm.
Rockbourne
Rocheborne: King's land; Alfwy and Saewin from the king.
A large farm incorporates a 13the century manor house.
Rockford
Rocheforde: Hugh de St. Quentin from Hugh de Port.
Also Rockford Common.
Rockstead
Rochesire: Hugh de Port. Mill.
Farm, near the remains of a Roman villa.
Rollstone
Rowestre: In the New Forest. Godric and Agemund.
Farm.
Romsey
Romesy: Romsey Abbey; Hundger. Church, 4 mills.
13th century house; 12th century church.
Rowner
Ruenore: William Manduit.
Part of Gosport.

Segensworth
Sugion.
Segensworth House; near the ruined abbey of St. Mary and St. John.
Shalden
Seldene: William Manduit.
Shalden Park; Wood; Farm.
Sherbourne St. John
Sireburne: Hugh de Port. Church, 3 mills.
The Vyne is a manor house built for Henry VIII's chancellor Lord Sandys.
Sherfield English
Sirefelle: Robert FitzGerald; Reginald from Alfred of Marlborough. Church.

Shipton Bellinger
Scepto(u)ne: Robert FitzGerald; Reginald from Alfred of Marlborough. Church.

Shirley
Sirelei: Ralph de Mortimer. Church, mill, fishery.
Part of Southampton.
Shoddesden
Sotesdene: Agemund from the king.
Now 2 hamlets, Great and Little Shoddesden.
Silchester
Silcestre: Ralph de Mortimer; Ralph Bloiet from William d'Eu.
Near Calleva Atrebatum, an excavated Roman town.
Snoddington
Snodintone: Hugh de Port.
Manor farm.
Soberton
Sudbertune: King's land; Herbert the Chamberlain; Henry the Treasurer; Earl Roger.

Sopley
Sopelie: William FitzStur. Mill. 875 eels.

South Baddesley
Bedeslei: Earl Roger.

South Charford
Cerdeford / Cerdi: Hugh de Port.
Farm.
Southampton
Hantone / tune: The King has in lordship 76 men who pay £7 of land tribute; before 1066 they paid as much. 27 of them each pay 8d; 2
[of them]
12d; and another 50 in number each pay 6d.
Before 1066 these had exempt land in the same Borough from the king himself; Odo of Winchester, Askell the priest, Ketel, Fugel, Tosti; the sons of Alric had 16 acres of land; Gerin
[had]
18 acres; Chipping had 3 exempt houses and now Ralph of Mortimer holds them; Godwin
[had]
3 houses that Bernard Pancevolt holds. Since King William came to England 65 Frenchmen and 31 Englishmen have been settled in Southampton. These all pay amongst themselves £4 6d for all customary dues.
These listed below have the customary dues of their houses in Southampton by grant of King William: Bishop G(eoffrey)
[dues]
of one house; the Abbot of Cormeilles 1; the Abbot of Lyne 1; the Count of Evreux 2; Ralph of Mortimer 2; Gilbert de Breteuil 2; William son of Stur 2; Ralph of Tosny 1; Durand of Gloucester 2; Hugh of Port 1; Hugh de Grandmesnil 1; the Count of Mortain 5; Aiulf the Chamberlain 5; Humphrey his brother 1; Osbern Giffard 1; Nigel the Doctor 4; Richere of Les Andleys 4; Richard Poynant 1; Stephen the Steersman 2; Thurstan the Chamberlain 2; Thurstan the Engineer 2; Ansketel son of Osmund 3; Reginald
[son of]
Croc 1.
The Abbess of Wherwell has 1 fishery and a littleland. Then it paid 100d; now 10s.

Important industrial port with a history dating back to Roman times; the ancient town walls are still visible.
South Stoneham
Stan(e)ham:
Lost.
South Tidworth
Todeorde: Hugh from Robert FitzGerald; Croc Hunter. Church.
Manor farm.
South Warnborough
Wergeborne: Guy and his daughter from Hugh FitzBaldric. Church, mill.
Timbered cottages; church with a rood loft.
Stanpit
Stanpeta: Hugh de Port.
Part of Christchurch.
Stanswood
Staneude: King's land. Mill, 2 fisheries.
Farm near Stanswood Bay; prolific oyster bed.
Steventon
Stivetune: Alfsi the Valet from the king.
Birthplace of writer Jane Austen (1775-1817).
Stockbridge
Stoche: William d'Eu. Mill.
Small town. Neighbouring Marsh Court School, built of chalk, was designed by Sir Edward Lutyens.
Stone
Stanes: Edmund from the king.
Stone Farm.
Stratfield Saye
Stradfelle: Hugh from Gilbert de Breteuil; Hugh FitzBaldric; Aelfric from the king. Church, 2 mills.
The Duke of Wellington's house.
Stratfield Turgis
Stradfelle: Aelfric from Hugh de Port. Forge, mill.
Farm.
Stubbington
Stubitone: Hugh de Port.
Town on the Solent.
Sunwood
Seneorde: Walter from Earl Roger. Church. Mostly destroyed by the wind.
Farm.
Sutton Scotney
Sudtune: Robert FitzGerald; Odo from the king. 2 churches, 2 mills.

Swampton
Suantune: Ralph de Mortimer. Mill.
Adjoins St. Mary Bourne.
Sway
Suie: In the New Forest. Romsey Abbey; Fulkwin and Nigel from Earl Roger; Edmund from the king. 3 mills.
Town.
Sydmonton
Sidemanestone: Romsey Abbey.

Tatchbury
Taceberie / Teocreberie: St. Peter's, Winchester.
On the outskirts of Totton.
Througham
Tru(c)han:
Lost.
Thruxton (Anne)
Anne: Jocelyn de Cormeilles with Cormeilles Abbey holding the church.
Aerodrome; motor-racing circuit.
Tidgrove
Titegrave: Fatherling from Hugh de Port. Mill.
Farm.
Timsbury
Timbreberie: St. Mary's, Winchester. Mill.
Manor house.
Titchfield
Ticefelle: King's land. Mill, market, toll.
Small town; Saxon church; ruin of Place House where Charles I spent his last night before imprisonment.
Totton
Dodintune: Romsey Abbey; Agemund from the king. Mill, salthouse.
Town.
Tufton
Trochiton: Wherwell Abbey. 2 mills.

Tunworth
Tuneworde: Hugh de Port, formerly Queen Edith.
Remote.
Twyford
Tuiforde: Bishop of Winchester. Church, 6 mills.
Benjamin Franklin lived at Twyford House in the late 18th century; Alexander Pope was expelled from the village school.
Twynham
T(h)uinam: King's land; the Canons of Twynham. Mill.
Part of Christchurch.

Upper Clatford
Cladford: King's land; the Abbot of Lyre; Adelina the Jester. 3 mills.

Upton (in Hurstbourne Tarrant)
Optune: King's land, formerly Queen Edith.
Roman earthworks were found nearby on the site of a Celtic field system.

Walhampton
Wolnetune: In the New Forest. Fulkwin from Earl Roger.

Warblington
Warblitone: Earl Roger. 2 churches, mill.
Remains of a 16th century castle.
Warnford
Warneford: St. Peter's, Winchester; Hugh de Port. 2 mills.
Church with a Saxon sundial.
Westbury
Wesberie: Jocelyn from Hugh de Port.
Westbury House and park.
West Meon
Menes: Bishop of Winchester. Church, 2 mills.
The church is the burial place of Thomas Lord of Lord's Cricket Ground.
Weston Patrick
Westone: Wherwell Abbey. 3 mills.
Built on a Saxon site; bridge with a Saxon cross; remains of a Saxon priory.
West Tisted
Tistede: Ranulf from Bishop of Winchester. Church.
Old manor house; church.
West Tytherley
Tiderlai / Tederlec: Archbishop Thomas (chapel); Roger from Waleran Hunter; Alfwy son of Thurber from the king (Alwin the Rat may have been the pre-Conquest holder, 2 previous pre-Conquest holders were killed in the Battle of Hastings); Alfwy son of Saewulf and Wulfric from the king.
Manor farm.
Whitnal
Windenaie: William de Fecamp from Bishop of Winchester's monks. Mill, church.
Farmhouse and buildings.
Wickham
Wicheham: Hugh de Port. 2 mills.
Small town, the birthplace of William Wykeham (1324-1404), Bishop of Winchester, Chancellor of England and founder of New College, Oxford.
Wield
Walde: Durand from Bishop of Winchester.
Remote.
Will Hall
Wildehel: Walter FitzOthere. Church.
Farm.
Winchfield
Winseflet: Walter FitzOthere from Chertsey Abbey.
Court Farm, on the site of the old manor house.
Winkton
Weringetone: Robert from Waleran Hunter. 2 mills for the hall. 450 eels.
On a stretch of the River Avon where there are 2 weirs.
Winslade
Winesflot: Walter from Hugh de Port.
Hackwood Park nearby, rebuilt by the Dukes of Bolton in the 18th century.
Wolverton
Ulvretune: Alfred the Priest, formerly Aelfeva, a woman.
Wolverton House.
Wonston
Wenesistune: Bishop of Winchester's monks. Church, mill.
Medieval rectory; farm.
Woodcott
Odecote: Fatherling and his daughter from William Bellett.
Manor farm.
Woodmancott
Udemanecote: Alfsi son of Brictsi from St. Peter's, Winchester.

Woolston
Olvestune: Reginald FitzCroc.
Part of Southampton.
Wootton (in Milton)
Odetune: In the New Forest. Godric.

Wootton St. Lawrence
Odetone: In the New Forest. Bishop of Winchester's monks; Hugh de Port.
Part 14th century Manydown House.
Worting
Wortinges: St. Peter's, Winchester. Church.
Near the site of a Roman villa.
Wymering
Wimeringes: King's land.
Part of Portsmouth.

Yavington
Eb / Edintune: Bishop of Winchester; St. Mary's, Winchester. 2½ mills.
Estate with Avington house.