I have a forthcoming paper on Wicklaw in Suffolk, the '(assembly) mound of the wîc'.
The latter is quite likely to be Wickham Market.
Keith
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Subject: Spooky For Christmas
Do you have a colleague who likes supernatural place-names? Is someone close to you found of names indicating places of assembly? Here comes the ideal Christmas present:
Hethe voc’ Wychemote 1547 in Greenham (PN Berks 1 p249).
A moment after unwrapping this, reality set in: I thought, it can’t mean ‘assembly-place of the witches’. That’s too good (or, in the case of witches, bad) to be true. But then what does it mean? Wych, for witch-elm, is the usual explanation for places in ‘witch’. ME mote ‘mound’ can develop much like (ge)môt. But mote is very rarely a generic, and I don’t think it’s ever coupled with words for trees – leaving aside the fact that witches are more likely than wych-elms to be found on a blasted heath. Is there another obvious explanation which I’ve missed?
Jeremy Harte
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Sent: 27 October 2018 16:20
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Subject: Borders
Please, what is a border? I don’t mean the floral or political sort, but the generic found in field-names in a small district east of Newbury. From the map, it appears to be used for small shaws planted along field boundaries, not necessarily on the parish border. Welton has Blindman’s Border, Harrod’s Border, Wadling’s Border , Newground Border, Sole Border. PN Berks lists other examples in Lambourn, East Garston and Kintbury, all in the same small area, and not apparently anywhere else. They appear on the OS map, occasionally on the Tithe Awards but not in earlier sources. What was so special about these stretches of woodland that they needed a name of their own?
Jeremy Harte
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