Dear Carole,


Thank you.  The topography is impossible to determine (since the names are not locatable), and 'ascent' is not likely in Suffolk (not a steep one, anyway), but the other senses might work.   I've also found one Ansty, but this might be a field-name from a surname.


Keith


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On the face of it, it looks similar to the much-discussed Old English compound anstig, so perhaps from the 'path' sense after all. Would a meaning 'single-file path', 'link road', or 'ascent' be plausible topographically?

Carole
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The term went is common in Suffolk field-names, where it usually seems to mean a piece of land rather than a path.


But I have also noted these four names in different parishes, which look like instances of a single term:


Onwend' 1205

Unwent 1608

Onewent n.d., before 1807

Onewent n.d., before 1813


Is the word found anywhere else?  What does it mean?


Keith