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English Place-Name Society
J.E.B. Gover, Allen Mawer F.M. Stenton (1940)
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English Place-Name Society
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English Place-Name Society
Barrie Cox (2005)
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Diana Whaley (2006)
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Eilert Ekwall (1960, 4th edn)
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David Mills (2001)
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Victor Watts (2004)
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Almuntone, Almentune 1086 Elmetona 1156
Owmton 1556 OE Ealhmund masc. pers.n. tun
estate
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Eastwood
Estweit 1165 Est Twait 1166 Estþwet
c.1185   OE east east OScand þveit
clearing
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Beeston Bestune 1086 Beeston 1182 Beistune
c.1207 OE beos bent-grass tun estate
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Brocolvestou 1086 Broculuestowe 1166 OE
Brocwulf masc. pers.n. stow place
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Elizabethan documents mention a port called
Apsom - wheres that? A 15th-century
will mentions a chapel at Chalueloke - wheres
that?
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Elizabethan documents mention a port called
Apsom - wheres that? Topsham (Devon) A
15th-century will mentions a chapel
at Chalueloke - wheres that? Challock
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Beeston SK 5236 Nottinghamshire Farm or village
growing with coarse grass. OE beos OE tun.
References PN Nt 139 DEPN Mills 1998.
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Lenton SK 5438 Nottinghamshire Farm or village
on the Leen. Pre-English river-name Leen OE
tun.
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Nottingham SK 5739 Nottinghamshire The
homestead of the followers of Snot. Snot is
probably a nickname meaning either snout, nose
or wise Anglo-Saxon personal name OE -ingas
OE ham. The same group, the Snotingas, gave name
to neighbouring Sneinton. An older British name
of the place is known Tigguocobauc house of
caves, alluding to the sandstone caves of Castle
Hill.
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Stapleford Stapleford 1086 Stapelford 1177 OE
stapol ford ford marked by a post or pillar
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Fawler (O) OE fah multicoloured flor floor
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   Dymchurch (K) Deman circe
c.1090 Demechirch 1240 Demecherche 1243
OE dema judge cirice church
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Dymchurch (K)
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Bilting (K) Belting 1270, 1272, etc. Byltyng
1346, 1347, etc. OE bylte rounded hill
place-name forming suffix -ing
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Bilting (K)
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Athelney (Somerset)
Midley (Kent)
Taplow (Bk)
Åkerö (Yngaren, Södermanland)
Thapeslau 1086 Tapeslawe 1187 Tappelawe 1196
OE Tæppa masc. pers.n. hlaw mound
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SYNDALE (K) Syndan 1196 Sindane 1240-7,
1254, etc. Sindan 1278 Syndane 1313
Syndale 1380 OE sin- huge denu valley.
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Bethersden
Slaybrook (K)
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Clary
Bethersden
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Bethersden
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Blackmanstone Blachemenestone 1086
Blakemannestun 1265 OE Blæcmann pers.n. tun
estate. Domesday Book names one Blacheman as
tenant here TRE.
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GODMERSHAM 1839 Tithe Map
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Church Meadow
Cherry Garden field
Orchard
Cow Meadow
Stonerock field
Godmersham
Purr Wood
Little Church Meadow
Churchyard Piece
Purr Wood field
Stumps Lane
Slip
Thorn Meadow
Plantation
Sheepleak field
Upper Southern Town
Meadow
Lower field
House field
Long Mead
River Stour
Crofts
Eight Acres
Garden
Oziers
Little Trimworth Farm
Lower Southern Town
Ripple
Parish of Crundale
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Church Meadow
Cherry Garden field
Orchard
Cow Meadow
Stonerock field
Godmersham
Purr Wood
Little Church Meadow
Churchyard Piece
Purr Wood field
Stumps Lane
Slip
Thorn Meadow
Plantation
Sheepleak field
Upper Southern Town
Meadow
Lower field
House field
Long Mead
River Stour
Crofts
Eight Acres
Garden
Oziers
Little Trimworth Farm
Lower Southern Town
Ripple
Parish of Crundale
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Purr Wood TR073501 (Godmersham parish)   pur
wuda 824 BCS378 (S1434) Purwod 1535 VE Purr
Wood 192, 400, Purr Wood field 191, Part of
Purr Wood field 198, Purr field Shave 402
1839 TA OE pur 'male lamb' wudu 'wood'. The
first element has alternatively been interpreted
as OE pur 'pure, clean' or OE pur 'bittern,
snipe' see Hough 2002 for the arguments in
favour of pur 'male lamb'.   KPN149, PNK378,
Sandred 1965755, Sandred 1996150, Cullen
1997204, Hough 2002
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