The traditional story about St Martin-in-the-Fields is that received its name from being built in open country outside the city of London. This is given by Mills (Dict. of London place-names) p 201, who first records "lez Feildes" 1493.
But this seems to ignore the Paris church recorded already as Saint-Martin-èz-Champs in 1079 (cartulary online at http://elec.enc.sorbonne.fr/cartulaires/smchamps/ - the introduction says that it was built in a place called les Champs).
Is there a connection between these two names?
Keith
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