Perhaps there four distinctive hills visible from the priory or the sea. I don't have a folding map handy, but can check when I get home.
Pedres-dun or such?
---- Keith Briggs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Peterstone Farm is to be found at Burnham Overy in Norfolk (TF861429).
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> The form Petreston 1259 is found in English Episcopal Acta Norwich 1244-1266 (ed. Harper-Bill).
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> VCH Norfolk 2 section 32 says:
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> The priory of St. Peter of Peterstone (de Petra S. Petri) was founded in the parish of Burnham St. Clement, or Overy, as a house or hospital under the Austin rule, towards the close of the twelfth century. Blomefield states that it was to some extent subordinate to Walsingham Priory from its foundation, but this is doubtful.
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> Why would a priory of twelfth-century foundation be given a -tūn name?
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> Keith
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