Editing Hampshire (section)

==Toponymy==
The Saxon settlement at Southampton was known as {{lang|ang|Hamtun}}, while the surrounding area or {{lang|ang|scīr}} was called {{lang|ang|Hamtunscīr}}. The old name was recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] as {{lang|enm|Hantescire}}, and it is from this spelling that the modern abbreviation "Hants" derives.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Hampshire |url=http://www3.hants.gov.uk/abouthnt |publisher=Hampshire County Council |access-date=3 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304224622/http://www3.hants.gov.uk/abouthnt |archive-date=4 March 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> From 1889 until 1959, the [[administrative county]] was named the '''County of Southampton'''.<ref>{{cite web |title=County of Hants (Southampton) |url=http://histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/PageBrowser?path=Browse/Census%20%28by%20geography%29/England/1891&active=yes&mno=64&tocstate=expandnew&tocseq=2600&display=sections&display=tables&display=pagetitles&pageseq=first-nonblank |work=Census of England and Wales: 1891: Area, Houses and Population: Volume 1 |publisher=Her Majesty's Stationery Office |access-date=27 August 2012 |page=121 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130515230422/http://histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/PageBrowser?path=Browse%2FCensus%20%28by%20geography%29%2FEngland%2F1891&active=yes&mno=64&tocstate=expandnew&tocseq=2600&display=sections&display=tables&display=pagetitles&pageseq=first-nonblank |archive-date=15 May 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Local Government Act 1958: Section 59: Change of Name of County |url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/41639/pages/1241 |work=The London Gazette |access-date=27 August 2012 |page=1241 |date=20 February 1959 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130507071652/http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/41639/pages/1241 |archive-date=7 May 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> It has also been called '''Southamptonshire'''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Vision of Britain |url=http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp;jsessionid=831E0EE166940B068F901D2E5F5D2B33?text_id=929180&word=NULL |access-date=13 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224152528/http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/descriptions/entry_page.jsp;jsessionid=831E0EE166940B068F901D2E5F5D2B33?text_id=929180&word=NULL |archive-date=24 February 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Gaz1868>{{cite web |title=National Gazetteer |date=1868 |url=http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HAM/Gaz1868.shtml |access-date=13 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141018015223/http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/HAM/Gaz1868.shtml |archive-date=18 October 2014 |url-status=live}}</ref>

Hampshire was a departure point for several groups of [[British colonization of the Americas|colonists]] who left England to settle on the east coast of [[North America]] during the 17th century, and many inhabitants of Hampshire settled there, naming the land [[New Hampshire]] in honour of their original homeland.<ref>{{cite web |title=Origin of 'New Hampshire' |date=28 September 2014 |url=http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/symbol-official-item/new-hampshire/state-name-origin/origin-new-hampshire |publisher=State Symbols USA |access-date=30 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904004447/http://www.statesymbolsusa.org/symbol-official-item/new-hampshire/state-name-origin/origin-new-hampshire |archive-date=4 September 2015 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref>