Chidden

Chidden
Chidden
	Chidden Location within Hampshire
OS grid reference	SU6566017144
Civil parish	Hambledon;
District	City of Winchester;
Shire county	Hampshire;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	Waterlooville
Postcode district	GU34
Dialling code	01420
Police	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Fire	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Ambulance	South Central
	List of places UK England Hampshire 50°57′00″N 1°04′00″W / 50.9500°N 1.0667°W

Chidden is a hamlet in Hampshire, England. It is in the parish of Hambledon 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Hambledon village, and is a former tithing of the parish.^[1]^[2] Its nearest town is Waterlooville, approximately 4.5 miles away. Its nearest railway station was formerly Droxford, on the Meon Valley Railway.

Etymology

The origin of the name Chidden is not clear. The name is first attested in a charter of 956 (attested in a twelfth-century copy) in the form æt cittandene. The last element of this name is the Old English word denu ("valley"), but the origin of the first is less obvious. It looks at first sight like a personal name, *Citta, in which case Cittandenu meant "Citta's valley". However, the same charter and others indicate that the inhabitants of the area were called cittanware and citware. Again, the second element of this word is obviously an Old English word, this time ware ("inhabitants"), and the name suggests that cittan was an independent place-name in its own right. Thus Cittandenu meant "the valley at Cittan" and Cittanware meant "the inhabitants of Cittan". Although the name Cittan has not been satisfactorily explained, several scholars have taken it to begin with the Common Brittonic word that survives in Modern Welsh as coed.^[3]^[4]^[5]^: 111

References

^ "Chidden: As described in John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)". A Vision of Britain Through Time. Retrieved 24 April 2021.
^ 'The parish of Hambledon', in A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1908), pp. 238-244. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol3/pp238-244 [accessed 24 April 2021].
^ Margaret Gelling and Ann Cole, The Landscape of Place-Names (Stamford: Tyas, 2000), p. 119.
^ Watts, Victor, ed. (2004). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521168557., s. v. Chidden.
^ Mills, A. D. (2011). A dictionary of British place-names (1. ed., rev ed.). Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-19-960908-6.

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[1] "Chidden: As described in John Bartholomew's Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887)". A Vision of Britain Through Time. Retrieved 24 April 2021.

[2] 'The parish of Hambledon', in A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3, ed. William Page (London, 1908), pp. 238-244. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/hants/vol3/pp238-244 [accessed 24 April 2021].

[3] Margaret Gelling and Ann Cole, The Landscape of Place-Names (Stamford: Tyas, 2000), p. 119.

[4] Watts, Victor, ed. (2004). The Cambridge Dictionary of English Place-Names, Based on the Collections of the English Place-Name Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521168557., s. v. Chidden.

[5] Mills, A. D. (2011). A dictionary of British place-names (1. ed., rev ed.). Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-19-960908-6.

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