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Yes - or more precisely, it was on the way which later antiquarians came to call the Icknield Way (because they imagined it as a continuation of a way of this way further west - see Harrison, ‘The Icknield Way: some queries’, The Archaeological Journal 160 (2003), 1–22). In Newmarket documents there are references to Ikenelswey, Ikenelsey, Ikenelsewey in 1472 which might (or might not) be relevant here. Keith ________________________________ From: The English Place-Name List <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Martin Counihan <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 02 September 2020 11:59 To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: Newmarket (Suffolk) Interesting. If Newmarket had no history before 1218, one wonders why a market was established there and whether it had a previous name. I suppose it was on the Icknield Way. Martin Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2020 at 11:00 AM From: "Keith Briggs" <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Newmarket (Suffolk) Ekwall hardly ever got things wrong, but when he put "Novum Forum 1200 Cur" in DEPN as the earliest reference to Newmarket, he created a huge amount of confusion. He didn't tell us that his source was the surname of a man Bertinus de Nouo foro in a Yorkshire document (Stenton, Pleas before the king i.304), who had no connection to Newmarket. In fact, many people called de novo foro occur in the 12th century, and their names may come from France, or be references to local marketplaces. Wisbech in Cambridgeshire had marketplaces already referred to in the thirteenth century as veteri foro and novo foro (BL Tiberius B ii f242r, not in PN Cambs); these are now Old Market and Market Place, on opposite sides of the river. So there is local potential for confusion here. Despite all this, the erroneous "Novum Forum 1200" was copied into Watts, CDEPN and Mills, ODBPN. Ekwall was even misquoted by Beresford (New towns of the Middle Ages, 490) as if he had referred to Novum Mercatum. I don't believe Newmarket was ever called forum. On the meanings of mercatum and forum, essential reading is the article by Paul Cullen in JEPNS 38. To put the record straight, below are the earliest records concerning Newmarket, in the form in the manuscripts, with the TNA catalogue numbers. Newmarket has no history before 1218, and the key date is 1223, when a licence for an annual fair was granted. Keith (in) nouo m’cato 1218/9 FF CP25/1/23/9 Novum Mercatum 1220 E179/239/242 (maneriu’ suu’ de) novo mercato 1223 C60/18 m.3 (maneriũ suũ de) Novo M’cato 1225/6 Close Roll (apud man’iũ suũ de) Novo M’cato 1226/7 Close Roll (in) nouo M’cato 1239/40 FF CP25/1/24/20 (apud) nouum m’catu’ 1239/40 FF CP25/1/24/20 (apud) novum mercat̃ 1244 C60/42 m.15 (Joh’es Le Petit de) Neumarch’ 1262 C60/59 m.17 (in villa de) nouo m’cato 1292/3 FF CP25/1/216/42 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the EPNL list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=EPNL&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/EPNL, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/