Jeremy Harte wrote:-
> I learn from Roger Knight’s Britain Against Napoleon ...
> ... what the etymology of the yard (earlier Weovill) might be.
> The Gosport history society suggest that it’s a personal name,
> but it always appears as Weovill rather than Weovill’s Farm etc.
Starts with Anglo-Saxon "wēoh" (weoh) = "heathen temple"?
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