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Re: Curebehind
Does cweorn mean 'quern' in place-names? At Cornford Bridge Do and Quarnford Staffs it seems to mean 'watermill', like Sweish kvarn.
 
Jeremy Harte

From: The English Place-Name List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of John Freeman
Sent: 25 May 2009 10:56
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Subject: Re: Curebehind

Given an association with mills, one thinks of OE cweorn, ME corn(e)- corun-, curne for the first element. '(A mill with a) hand-quern behind (it)'??? Don't ask me to explain, though!
 
John Freeman
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From: [log in to unmask] href="mailto:[log in to unmask]">Keith Briggs
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Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: [EPNL] Curebehind

> Around 1200 there was a mill somewhere in Suffolk (Herringswell?) with an unusual name:
>... molendinum quod dicitur Curebihind ...

Another one: Curebehinden 1263 (Stoke-by-Clare cartulary ii 162, ed. Christopher Harper-Bill & Richard Mortimer, Suff Rec Soc 1983).   If this is near Clare as the source suggests, and the first is near Herringswell, then they cannot be the same mill.

Keith


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