Hants
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Etymology[edit]
Hants is the abbreviated form of Hampshire. The abbreviated form is derived from Old English Hantum plus scir (meaning a district governed from the settlement now known as Southampton) and the Anglo-Saxons called it Hamtunschire. At the time of the Domesday Book (1086) this was compressed to Hantescire.[1]
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Hants
- Short for Hampshire., England
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References[edit]
- ^ “About Hampshire”, in Hantsweb[1], 2016 September 8 (last accessed), archived from the original on 4 March 2012