Bathingbourne is a farming hamlet in the southeastern part of the Isle of Wight. It is located on Bathingbourne Lane, northwest of Apse Heath and southwest of Hale Common. Bathingbourne is on the boundary of Godshill and Arreton civil parishes.
Several businesses, holiday accommodations and farms are present in Bathingbourne. Bathingbourne farms produce livestock and garlic.[1]
Bathingbourne was the name of a manor in the ancient parish of Godshill. It was alternatively known as "Baddingbourne" and "Bangbourne"[2] 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).[3] Bathingbourne was one of five manors granted by King Eadwig (reigned 955–959) to members of his thegn, 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.[3] The Domesday Book in 1086 listed Bathingbourne in its records of English settlements.[4][5]
- ^ Garlic Crop at Bathingbourne Farm
- ^ A Vision of Bathingbourne, A Vision of Britain Through Time; A vision of Britain between 1801 and 2001. Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions Archived October 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, Great Britain Historical Geographical Information System Project, Department of Geography Archived 26 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, University of Portsmouth.
- ^ a b Bathingbourne, A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 5, William Page (editor), 1912, From British History Online. Retrieved 22 October 2007.
- ^ The Domesday Book Index Archived January 5, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Domesday Book 4 - Hampshire: A Survey of the Counties of England (Hardcover), John Morris (Editor), Phillimore, 14 January 1982, ISBN 0-85033-157-9