A BRIEF HISTORY OF DROXFORD, HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND By Tim Lambert
DROXFORD IN THE MIDDLE AGES Before 2,000 BC Neolithic (stone-
age) farmers lived in the Droxford area. They built a long
barrow (a burial chamber) on the site of the village. Much later
in the 6th century AD a people called the Jutes from Denmark
invaded central Hampshire. A tribe called the Meon settled in
the Meon Valley and they gave their name to the River. They
probably founded Droxford. The name Droxford is probably derived
from ford and an old word 'drocen' meaning dry place. The
settlement of Droxford was first mentioned in writing in the 9th
century AD. It was then called Drokeireford. A Saxon cemetery at
Droxford was excavated in 1973. Of 39 people only 5 were elderly
and 8 were children or adolescents. At the time of the Domesday
Book, in 1086 England was divided into areas called manors. The
manor of Droxford or 'Drocheneford' as it was called included
Swanmore and Shedfield. (For administrative purposes they
remained part of the parish