Professor Richard Coates, of the University of Sussex, and President of the
English Place-Name Society, currently working on Hampshire, has supplied
the following clue:
I don't have a specific reference yet, but I guess it was in or near St
Mary's Street (Seinte Marie stret 1332). SU 425117-ish. Don't be misled by
the new St Mary's football stadium, a little way off!
Richard
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> Date: Saturday, April 12, 2003 2:45 PM -0700
> From: Bea Hopkinson <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Wells in Southampton
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> 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:
>
> > 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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University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
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