- Bathingbourne
Bathingbourne is a farming hamlet in the southeastern part of the
Isle of Wight . It is located on Bathingbourne Lane, northwest ofApse Heath and southwest ofHale Common . Bathingborne is part of the town ofSandown .Several businesses, holiday accommodations and farms are present in Bathingbourne. Bathingbourne farms produce livestock and garlic. [ [http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/500775 Garlic Crop at Bathingbourne Farm] ]
Bathingbourne was the name of a manor in the ancient civil parish of
Godshill . It was alternatively known as "Baddingbourne" and "Bangbourne" [ [http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit_page.jsp?u_id=10498570 A Vision of Bathingbourne] , [http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/geography/ A Vision of Britain Through Time; A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions] , [http://www.gbhgis.org/ Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System Project] , [http://www.port.ac.uk/departments/academic/geography/ Department of Geography] ,University of Portsmouth .] in the 16th century, but before that it was earlier known as Beaddingaburn (10th century, Bedingeborne (11th century), Baddingebourne (13th century), and Bathyngbourne (14th century). [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42067#s6 Bathingbourne] , [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=42067 A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 5] , William Page (editor), 1912, From British History Online, accessed October 22, 2007.] Bathingbourne was one of five manors granted by King Eadwig (reigned 955-959) to members of histhegn , although a previous charter of King Edred (reigned 946-955) also parcelled out this land, but Edred's charter divided the land along different boundaries. TheDomesday Book in 1086 listed Bathingbourne in its records of English settlements. [ [http://www.haughton.net/domesdaybookplaces_b2.htm The Domesday Book Index] ] [Domesday Book 4 - Hampshire: A Survey of the Counties of England (Hardcover), John Morris (Editor), Phillimore, January 14, 1982, ISBN 0850331579]References
External links
* [http://uk.local.yahoo.com/Isle_of_Wight/Bathingbourne/12065-idx.html Map of Bathingbourne's location]
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