Thank you to those who sent useful, interesting replies both on the list and
privately - the consensus seems to be an origin from loose debris -
presumably this is why we get the verb to clatter - to make a rattling
noise. In the case of Clatterbury Lane, Clavering, one could surmise that it
relates to a tumulus nearby which was once a big hill (beorg) from which
loose debris (clatter) eroded away? There was, I think, a tumulus in nearby
Wood Hall, Arkesden and Clatterbury Lane does link with the estate road.
Jacqueline Cooper
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