Quidhampton, Hampshire

Quidhampton
Quidhampton
	Quidhampton Mill
	Quidhampton Location within Hampshire
OS grid reference	SU512503
Civil parish	Overton;
District	Basingstoke and Deane;
Shire county	Hampshire;
Region	South East;
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	BASINGSTOKE
Postcode district	RG25
Dialling code	01256
Police	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Fire	Hampshire and Isle of Wight
Ambulance	South Central
UK Parliament	Basingstoke;
	List of places UK England Hampshire 51°15′00″N 1°16′00″W / 51.2500°N 1.2666°W

Quidhampton is a hamlet within Overton civil parish in the borough of Basingstoke and Deane in Hampshire, England. It is located just to the north of the large village of Overton, on the north bank of the River Test. Overton railway station, on the West of England Main Line, is located in the hamlet.

Toponym

Historically spelled Quedhampton or Quydhampton, first part of the place name comes from "coed", the Celtic word for wood.^[1]

^ Shore, T W (1911). "Overton and its neighbourhood" (PDF). Shore memorial volume. Hampshire papers on the natural history and antiquities of the county and other miscellanea published and unpublished by the late T. W. Shore. Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society. Retrieved 29 November 2024.

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