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Place Names of North Baddesley

North Baddesley, like all English parishes, had its own names for fields, enclosures, woods, and areas within its boundaries. Here is a list of such names found on maps and in various documents relating to the parish.

Ash Shade Wood - A small enclosed wood to the south of Flexford Road, near Knightwood
Baddesley Farm - see Manor Farm
Barracks, The - A nickname given to the row of cottages in Street End
Body Farm - An ancient farm on the junction of Pound Lane, Baddesley Road and Nutburn Lane. Local tradition has it that it is so called because the body of William Rufus rested here in 1100AD en route to Winchester. It is more likely to be the land referred to as Bodycoates in the church rates of the late 17th century.
Brickworks - A brickworks was located to the west of the A27 near the boundary with Chilworth. Many 19th century Baddesley men were employed here. Tradition has it that the clay used to make the bricks here was too salty, resulting in the bricks crumbling after a very short period, and that the brickworks finally went out of business. A second brickworks was located on Rownhams Road, now in the parish of Nursling and Rownhams and a riding school. It is called, appropriately Kiln Farm.
Brownhill - An area of marshy ground on which the Fleming housing estate now stands.
Bucket Corner - On the first bend down Pound Lane. Named after the Bucket family who lived here in the late 17th century.
Castle Cottages - A pair of thatched cottages off Sandy Lane, now a single dwelling house. One of the oldest surviving buildings in the village.
Castle Hill - Ancient earthworks which could be iron age or earlier, in the woods to the north of Flexford Road.
Castle Hill Farm - A farm to the north of the Flexford Road.
Cuckolds Castle - A place name located by the modern Baddesley crossroads. Despite names like Castle Lane and Castle Hill Farm, no evidence of a castle in Baddesley has ever been found.
Dirty Drive - An ancient trackway from Chandlers Ford, through the woods towards Nutburn
Emer Bog - An area in the north of the parish, where evidence of stone age occupation has been found. Now a SSSI - a Site of Special Scientific Interest, due to a rare species of moth to be found there.
Flexford Gate - The name of a farm at the edge of the parish at the end of Flexford Road. Also known as Hoskins Gate after a family of that name farmed there.
Flexford Road - The modern name for the road leading from the church to Chandler's Ford. Also called Baddesley Road.
Fly Island - An area of marshy ground, bounded by Botley Road (A27), Rownhams Lane and Rownhams Road. Now a residential area, including the Firgrove Estate.
Glebe Cottage - A small cottage to the east of the Manor House. Also referred to as the Old Rectory
Great Covert - A large wood to the north of Castle Lane.
Green Hill - A farm at Toothill, now in the parish of Rownhams.
Hogtrough Wood - A small wood to the north of Castle Lane.
Hoskins Gate - A farm and cottage located at the end of Flexford Road on the parish boundary. Also known as Flexford Gate.
Keeper's Cottage - There were two Keeper's cottages in Baddesley. One, referred to as Keeper's Cottage in the Plantation was to the north of Flexford Road; the other was situated at Knightwood.
Kiln Farm - See Brickworks
Knightwood - Farm and cottages, located off Flexford or Baddesley Road. Now almost totally obliterated by modern housing development.
Light's Copse - Named after the Light family who lived here in the late 17th century.
Manor Farm - The main farm in the village which lies to the east of the Manor House. Sometimes referred to on early maps as Baddesley Farm
Misslebrook Lane - a lane which leads from Castle Lane to Chilworth. Named after Thomas Misslebrook, a gamekeeper who lived there in the late 18th century.
Newlands - A copse or coppice to the north of Bucket Corner.
Nutburn, Nutburn Lane, Nutburn Road - Nutburn seems to have been the name given to the cluster of thatched cottages which existed as almost a separate hamlet, north of the current Baddesley crossroads. It was also called Street End. Nutburn Lane was the name given to the road leading up to the main village and church; in recent years this has been renamed Nutburn Road. Occasionally, seen written as Nutbeam.
Nutburn Farm - An old farm off Nutburn Road.
The Old Rectory - see Glebe Cottage
The Pound - The village pound was about 200m along Pound Lane on the right hand side, opposite Pound Lane Cottage It was used for impounding any stray animals found wandering round the village.
The Rectory - The manor House was used as the Rectory for many years at the beginning of the 20th century. However, a new building was erected close to the Manor House opposite Body Farm in the 1930's (?) This in turn was sold as a private home in the 1980's and the vicar took up residence in a home located more in the centre of the modern village in Spring Gardens.
Riders Farm - The first dwelling along the Flexford Road from the church of St John, on the north side. The original building was demolished in recent years and replaced with a large modern house.
Rownhams - A small hamlet to the south of Baddesley, which is now a separate civil and ecclesiastical parish.
Sandy Lane - A short, very old track to the east of the Recreation ground.
Sawmill Cottages - semi-detached cottages built in the 19th century along the east side of Nutburn Lane for the workers in the sawmill which was situated on the opposite side of the lane.
School - The National School was built in the 1870's for the children of North Baddesley and Chilworth and is located on the A27 opposite the recreation ground. It now serves as the infant school, with the more modern junior school situated close by. There was almost certainly an earlier school somewhere in the village.
School House - The headmaster's residence is located next to the school and dates from the same era.
Scragg Hill - On the A27 on the outskirts of the village towards Romsey. Could this be something to do with the 17th century family of Scraggleford?
Sions Hill - see Zions Hill
Skye Wood - Named after the Skye family who lived in the village in the late 16th century.
Small Profits - a small wood in the east of the parish.
Street End The name given to the settlement at the end of Nutburn Lane and not just the small lane which is called Street End in modern times.
Toothill - Ancient earth works, beacon hill and telegraph hill, now part of Rownhams.
Tredgould Wood - Simon Tredgoe or Tredgould was a farmer and churchwarden in the late 17th century
Wool Grave - The curious name, Wool Grave dates from about 1610 when a person of the name of WOOLL hanged himself at Gosport in the parish of Hursley (to the north of Baddesley). He was buried on the border of the parish at the corner of Newland's Coppice and a stake was driven through his body.
Zions Hill - Sometimes referred to as Sions Hill - an old farm, off Castle Lane, now almost totally obliterated by new housing development.
Zions Hill Cottage An old cottage located to the north of Castle Lane.