Andy,
You've obviously gone about this in the right way. As you havn't
tried the Place Name Society I am wondering if this might be a shortcut
for you?
Bea
On 4/12/03 1:18 AM Andy Anderson writes:
>folks, hi
>
>Having recently aquired a copy of James Rattue's "The Living Stream",
>and being a Southampton resident, I was fascinated by his tantalising
>theory of the shire-well site in Southampton. I set off to locate the
>two wells he mentions (there are some other named wells, as you'd expect
>in a conurbation of this size).
>
>Pylgrimesput was easy enough to locate - it's the earlier name for
>Simnel Street, which runs to the long-vanished Pilgrims Gate, later
>Biddlesgate. But wherever it was in the hundred and fifty yards of
>Simnel Street, it's stretching James's model to the limits to consider
>it as co-located with St Michael's church.
>
>Saintemariwell is much harder. I've now exhausted the two cartularies,
>the port book, Speed's history, Leland's itinerary, in short everything
>that's in the open collections at the university library and in the city
>archives, to no avail. The next bit is clearly going to be much more
>complex, so before embarking on it (fascinating though I'm sure it will
>be) I thought I'd ask the list if anyone else has tried this before,
>since I see no point in beating myself up if someone else already knows
>the answer.
>
>regards
>Andy Anderson
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