I've wondered how frequent the form "Mary('s) Knoll" and similar is - I 
first knew it in Hong Kong from a school run by the Maryknoll Sisters:  a 
few facts from two sources on Google:

MARYKNOLL
 headquarters of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, near 
Ossining, N.Y. The community was established in 1911 and sent out its first 
missionaries in 1918.
By 1921, the community consisted of 20 priests, a dozen brothers, and about 
65 seminary students. The facilities were four wooden farm buildings, 
situated on a hill named "Mary's Knoll".

But whether the hill was called this before - or whether it seemed a 
suitable place to found such a community - isn't clear.

I'm sure I've seen other examples in EPNS volumes etc.

Jennifer Scherr

--On 16 March 2010 11:52 +0000 John Freeman <[log in to unmask]> 
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>
> Mary Knoll in Burrington, Herefords, which may well go back to OE gemære
> 'boundary', or its ME equivalent, appears as St. Marys Knoll in 1754 and
> 1835. It might be worth examining other 'St Mary' names for this
> possibility.
>
>
>
> John Freeman
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jeremy Harte
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> Sent: Saturday, March 13, 2010 8:12 PM
> Subject: [EPNL] All Saints?
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> Dear All,
>
>
> A friend of mine is collecting spurious saints – the sort noted by John
> Field in Field-Names where (pp240–1) he observes that St. Anne's
> Heath at Egham was previously Sunderne Heath, and St. Edith's Marsh at
> Bromham was Editheleghe 1374 after the queen of that name, while the
> field-names St. John at Stanton St. John and St. John's Field at
> Walkern both derive from singett, 'burnt place'.
>
> A search through EPNS volumes adds spurious dedications to St. Swithin at
> Ilford, St. Mary at Stow Marys, and St. Botolph at Colchester (Essex
> p101, 228–9, 377); St. Aldate at Oxford (Oxon. 1 p43); St. Helen at
> Elstow (Beds/ Hunts pp70–1); St. Rumbold at Chichester and St. Anthony
> at Eastbourne (Sussex 1 p13, 2 p433); and St. Nicholas at Shoreditch
> (Midd. p217).
>
> I must have missed lots. Can anyone volunteer other examples?
>
>
> Jeremy Harte
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