Wickham Knights Bridge
Other OS name in the Parish of Woolhampton
Historical Forms
- Wickham Knight Meadows 1842 TA
Etymology
, Wickham Knight Meadows 1842TA ; this may be another instance of the name wīchām , for which v. 24 . The bridge is at GR 581663 , exactly a mile from the Roman road from Silchester to Speen . Knight may be OE cniht , a word of some significance in association with wīchām , but there was a house of Knights Hospitallers in Brimpton , just over a mile away , and it may be a reference to these medieval ' knights ' .
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Woolhampton Cottage
- Wernham's Wood
- Woolhampton Park
- Upper Woolhampton
- Angel's Copse, Angel's Plantation
- Breakneck Copse
- Bushy Pightle
- The Court
- Halton's Corner Copse
- Hill Foot
- Kennet Orley
- Kiff Green, Kiff Green Fm
- London Lodge
- The Poplars
- Popleyhill Gully
- Radman's Gully
- Rising Sun P.H.
- Shutsdown Plantation
- Temple Gully
- Woolhampton Fm, Woolhampton Ho, Woolhampton Lodge