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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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