How about some dated forms of the name, please?
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From: The English Place-Name List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Linda Corrigan
Sent: 28 August 2017 23:09
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Subject: Re: The Chatel Stream
How about Old French chatel / Anglo- Norman catel " possession, livestock etc. ME cattle? Seems a possibility for a watering stream for cattle?
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> On 28 Aug 2017, at 15:07, Doug Rickard <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I discounted the Chatel/Chateau connection as Bolbec Castle in the middle of the village was not built until the 13c and the name of the Chatel Stream appears to pre-date that. Of course there could have been a small castle or fort thereabouts earlier but no archaeological evidence appears to have been unearthed. Anyway the Bolbec Castle site has its own stream, a spring named Sweet Alice.
> Your suggestion of a possible "cēto-" = "woodland" derivation is interesting as woods would have been features on the otherwise sparsely wooded chalk/limestone hills of the area.
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> Doug Rickard
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> -----Original Message----- From: Anthony Appleyard
> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2017 3:14 PM
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> Subject: Re: The Chatel Stream
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> Doug Rickard wrote:
>> ''' The Dunn Mill in the village of Whitchurch in Buckinghamshire was on the Chatel Stream.
>> The stream still flows through the village but the mill is long gone. ...
>> Any ideas?
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> Or could it have come down from Celtic "cēto-" = "woodland"? Or related to "castle"?
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