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Or perhaps it was always being dug up; hence 'cone-y'? On 02/11/2011 09:48, [log in to unmask] wrote: > Evidently an early example of a road used as a short-cut which became known as 'the rabbit run'! > > David Horovitz > > >> ----Original Message---- >> From: [log in to unmask] >> Date: 01/11/2011 18:04 >> To:<[log in to unmask]> >> Subj: Re: Coney Street (York) >> >> If this were so, what would the significance of 'Street' be? - 'hamlet' ? >> Or could it still imply a paved street? >> (I haven't got PN YE to hand I'm afraid). >> >> Jennifer Scherr >> >> , Nov 1, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Keith Briggs<[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> >>> Coney Street was mentioned by Sarah Rees Jones at the SNSBI meeting in >>> York last Saturday (http://www.snsbi.org.uk/york.pdf. The meaning was >>> given as ‘king street’, exactly as in PN YE 288.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> But the form has developed as if meaning ‘coney (rabbit) street’, and I >>> don’t see why this cannot be the original sense too. The Anglo-Norman >>> Dictionary (s.v. *conin, *and* *disregarding *-l* forms such as *conil*) >>> gives *conin, conig, coning, coninge, couning, cunin* as typical singular >>> forms, and these match quite well forms for Coney Street such as *Cuninge-, >>> Coning-, Cunig*- (all 12th).**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> Perhaps rabbits are not expected in a town, but Coney Street runs along >>> the river-bank, a steep bank of the kind favoured by rabbits for burrows. >>> It is outside the Roman fortress wall, and might have been waste land in >>> the 12th century.**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> Keith**** >>> >>> ** ** >>> >>> ** ** >>>