Ashe, Hampshire :: The British Place Names Website

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Ash
Esse

Parish/Community: Overton
District/Borough: Basingstoke and Deane
County: Hampshire
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Hamlet

Latitude/Longitude: 51°14'45"N 1°14'6"W
Eastings/Northings: 453485, 149934
OS Grid: SU534499
Mapcode Local: GBR 955.SMK
Mapcode Global: VHD05.JYW3

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Ashe within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Ashe in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Ashe, par. and seat, N. Hants, 5 miles NE. of Whitchurch, 2127 ac., pop. 198.

Ashe in the Domesday Book

A village in Overton hundred, in the county of Hampshire.

- Overlord in 1066: Earl Harold
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Alwaker father of Aelfric
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Eudo the steward
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Eudo the steward
- Taxable Value: 8 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £7 in 1066; £6 10/- in 1070; £6 10/- in 1086
- Households: 4 villagers; 10 smallholders; 10 slaves
- Plough Teams: 2 lord's ploughs; 3 men's ploughs (8 plough lands)
- Meadow: 3 acres
- Churches: 1

British Place Names

Ashe, Hampshire

Ashe is a hamlet in Hampshire

Ashe in historic gazetteers

Ashe in the Domesday Book