Bathingbourne is a farming hamlet in the southeastern part of the
Isle of Wight
The Isle of Wight (Help:IPA/English, /waɪt/ Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''WYTE'') is an island off the south coast of England which, together with its surrounding uninhabited islets and Skerry, skerries, is also a ceremonial county. T ...
. It is located on Bathingbourne Lane, northwest of
Apse Heath and southwest of
Hale Common
Hale Common is a farming hamlet on the Isle of Wight. Hale Common is on the A3056 road between Lake, Isle of Wight, Lake and Arreton. Hale Common is northeast of Bathingbourne and northwest of Branstone, Isle of Wight, Branstone. It is in the c ...
. Bathingbourne is on the boundary of
Godshill
Godshill is a village and civil parish on the Isle of Wight, England, with a population of 1,459 at the 2011 Census. It lies between Newport and Ventnor in the southeast of the island.
History
Godshill is one of the ancient parishes that exi ...
and
Arreton
Arreton is a village and civil parishes in England, civil parish in the central eastern part of the Isle of Wight, England. It is about 3 miles south east of Newport, Isle of Wight, Newport.
Name
The settlement has had different names and diffe ...
civil parishes.
Several businesses, holiday accommodations and farms are present in Bathingbourne. Bathingbourne farms produce livestock and garlic.
Bathingbourne was the name of a
manor in the ancient parish of Godshill. It was alternatively known as "Baddingbourne" and "Bangbourne" 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).
[BathingbourneA History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 5]
William Page (editor), 1912, From British History Online. Retrieved 22 October 2007. Bathingbourne was one of five manors granted by
King Eadwig (reigned 955–959) to members of his
thegn
In later Anglo-Saxon England, a thegn or thane (Latin minister) was an aristocrat who ranked at the third level in lay society, below the king and ealdormen. He had to be a substantial landowner. Thanage refers to the tenure by which lands were ...
, 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.
[ The '']Domesday Book
Domesday Book ( ; the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book") is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by ...
'' in 1086 listed Bathingbourne in its records of English settlements.[Domesday Book 4 - Hampshire: A Survey of the Counties of England (Hardcover), John Morris (Editor), Phillimore, 14 January 1982, ]
References
External links
Map of Bathingbourne's location
Hamlets on the Isle of Wight
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