At 06:50 08/02/03 -0500, you wrote:
>PH Reaney, The Place Names of Essex specifically pages 74, 128 and 139
>provides an alternative perspective.
Which is?
>A check of ALF Rivet and C Smith, The Place Names of Roman Britain,
>(Batsford, 1979) reveals no mention of Coldharbour.
Hardly surprising -- 'cold harbour' (like most English place-names) is Old
English not Latin. The suggestion is that the name was given to (some)
Roman ruins by Anglo-Saxons. The Romans would have called the place
'Antonio's nice posh villa' (my Latin's not up do doing the translation
from English...) or whatever.
Bob
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