Woolhampton

Other current and historical names

Ollavintone

Built-Up Area: Woolhampton
Parish/Community: Woolhampton
Unitary Authority: Basingstoke and Deane
Region: South East

Category: Populated Place
Type: Village

Latitude/Longitude: 51°23'53"N 1°10'41"W
Eastings/Northings: 457273, 166905
OS Grid: SU572669
Mapcode Local: GBR 93H.8Z2
Mapcode Global: VHCZM.J3JW

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

Woolhampton in historic gazetteers

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

Woolhampton, par. and vil., Berks, in S. of co.- par., 719 ac., pop. 493; vil., 7 miles E. of Newbury; P.O., T.O.; in vicinity is Woolhampton House, seat.

Woolhampton in the Domesday Book

A village in Reading hundred, in the county of Berkshire.

- Overlord in 1066: King Edward
- Lord of the Manor in 1066: Godric the sheriff
- Tenant in Chief in 1086: Henry of Ferrers
- Lord of the Manor in 1086: Henry of Ferrers
- Taxable Value: 3 geld
- Value to Lord of the Manor: £6 in 1066; £4 in 1070; £4 in 1086
- Households: 12 villagers; 4 smallholders; 4 slaves
- Plough Teams: 5 men's ploughs (5 plough lands)
- Meadow: 40 acres
- Mills: 1, value 15 shillings

British Place Names

Woolhampton, Basingstoke and Deane

Woolhampton is a village in Basingstoke and Deane

Woolhampton in historic gazetteers

Woolhampton in the Domesday Book