Wootton, New Forest
| Wootton | |
| Hampshire | |
|---|---|
 Rising Sun pub at Wootton | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SZ245982 |
| Location: | 50°47’1"N, 1°39’12"W |
| Data | |
| Post town: | New Milton |
| Postcode: | BH25 |
| Dialling code: | 01425 |
| Local Government | |
| Council: | New Forest |
| Parliamentary constituency: |
New Forest West |
Wootton is a hamlet in south-western Hampshire, close to New Milton, in the south of the New Forest.
The hamlet is to be found just north of the village of Bashley and south of Brockenhurst. Locally the place is known principally for the Rising Sun public house.[1] There is a popular local beauty spot at nearby Wootton Bridge, where the road crosses the Avon Water.[2]
The name 'Wootton' is a commonplace name, used by at least three villages in Hampshire alone, and derives from the Old English wudu tun, meaning "wood farmstead".[3]
History
The Domesday Book of 1086 records the manor as Odetune. It was held by one Godric from the King before 1066, but by 1086 William the Conqueror had created the New Forest as his private hunting domain and most of the estate fell within the forest.[4]
Wootton appears to have escaped the notice of history for much of the Middle Ages.
In 1843, a Primitive Methodist chapel was erected in Wootton after a preacher visited the hamlet and "converted a number of sinners . . . and formed a society of nine members."[5] The chapel building still survives and is a red brick structure with a slate roof on Tiptoe Road.[6] The two-storey brick building to the west of it was once a shop.[6] In 1855 the population of Wootton is reported as including an inn-keeper for the Rising Sun, a shop-keeper, a schoolmistress, a post-office "receiver", a shoemaker, two blacksmiths, and two carpenters.[7] In the 19th century Wootton had a Church of England village school,[8] but this burned down in 1914, and a new school was built in nearby Tiptoe.[9]
The Rising Sun public house at Wootton has been on its present site for over two hundred years.[1] The inn was rebuilt at the beginning of the 20th century.
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Wootton, New Forest) |
- Wootton in the Domesday Book
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Rising Sun, Bashley, New Milton
- ↑ A walk in the King's forest: Mail Online, 22 September 2000
- ↑ Old Hampshire Gazetteer - Wootton
- ↑ Domesday Map - Wootton
- ↑ John Petty, (1864), The history of the Primitive Methodist connexion, page 445
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Hampshire Treasures Volume 5 (New Forest), page 265
- ↑ "Milton" entry in Post Office Directory of Hampshire, Wiltshire, and Dorsetshire, (1855), pages 85-6
- ↑ A. T. Lloyd, J. E. S. Brooks, (1996), The History of New Milton and its Surrounding Area, Centenary Edition, page 37
- ↑ A. T. Lloyd, J. E. S. Brooks, (1996), The History of New Milton and its Surrounding Area, Centenary Edition, pages 38 and 78