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Channelling Grundy, I decided to look on the OS map! I could only find Linton near Bromyard, but at 1:25,000 scale there are several springs marked in its vicinity. Similarly, at Ledbury Massington Farm is between two springs.
John Briggs
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> Just to report that I've just found another example, non-Tudor and non-taxation, of 'Holywater' as an addition to a place-name. In The Registers of Canon Frome, co, Hereford, 1680-1812, transcribed by Michael Hopton (Parish Register Society [publications], 45), London: Parish Register Society, 1903, p.31 (http://www.archive.org/details/registersofcanon45cano) we find:
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> "William Taylor of Linton's Holy Water in the Parish of Bromyard & Mary Hemmings & Mary Hemmings [name mentioned twice], of ye Parish of Whitbourne both in ye county of Hereford were married by Banns 28 Sept 1796 by Ralph Hopton of Bishop Frome. No witnesses."
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> So the tradition did survive for at least 250 years.
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