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Dear Richard, Dear All,

And then there’s St. Ivel, who I’ve always wondered about, though this may be a personal rather than a place-name. I know what he looks like, because he appeared on a set of advertising cards in which monks from the local abbey were down in the dumps, facing a Christmas without dairy products, until at the last minute St. Ivel came to their rescue and all was soft cheese spread and jollity.

Which reminds me of Lymeswold, perhaps the only place-name without an associated place. What is it about cheese?

Cheers,

Jeremy Harte

From: The English Place-Name List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Richard Coates
Sent: 13 March 2010 21:06
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Subject: Re: All Saints?

Maybe the best of all is St Kilda, non-saint of the Outer Hebrides.

Richard

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Sent: 13 March 2010 20:12
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Subject: [EPNL] All Saints?

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