None of this says what a wambling is! OED records † wombling, adv. 'on the belly' once. Keith ________________________________ From: The English Place-Name List <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Richard Coates <[log in to unmask]> Sent: 29 September 2020 10:15 To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> Subject: Re: What is a wambling? Loosely for two bovates??? RC -----Original Message----- From: The English Place-Name List <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Anthony Appleyard Sent: 29 September 2020 09:59 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [EPNL] What is a wambling? Keith Briggs wrote:- > A twelfth-century description of land in Assington (Sf) has quoddam > wambling in parco de Asintone quod est terra duorum boum (Kalendar of Abbot Samson, ed. Davis p.68). > So there's a connection to two cows, but what exactly was it? Keith "A certain Wambling in Asintone Park which is land of 2 oxen". Perhaps, the land referred to may have been enough to graze two oxen ("cow" = 'vacca'.), and was known as "The Wambling". Perhaps someone grazed his pair of haulage oxen there. ######################################################################## 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/