Wootton St Lawrence
The name is derived from the Old English wudu tun meaning woodland settlement or farm.[2] The manor of Wootton (see Manydown) was a possession of the prior and convent of St. Swithun from the time of the Domesday book until the dissolution of the monasteries.Wootton oak timber was used to reconstruct Winchester Cathedral nave c. 1390 by William of Wykeham.[3] Wootton St Lawrence is in the civil parish of Wootton St Lawrence with Ramsdell[4] with an elected Parish Council and falls within the local government district of Basingstoke and Deane, part of the shire county of Hampshire.Parishes: Wootton St Lawrence, A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 4 (1911), pp.