Dear Keith,

 

I make that:

Hampshire: Freshwater, Hinton Admiral, Hurn, Milford, Mudeford and Somerford and Street in Christchurch

Dorset: Barnsley in Wimborne Minster and Eastington in Worth Matravers

 

It looks as if Compes/Compis was still being understood as a vocabulary word at the time of the documents.

 

There’s a fieldname Camps in Aveton Gifford (http://www.ag-project.co.uk/107/the-1842-tithe-map)

 

Jeremy

 

From: The English Place-Name List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Keith Briggs
Sent: 28 November 2014 09:57
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Subject: comp

 

I have noted these Hampshire and Dorset field-names in the Christchurch Priory Cartulary (ed. Hanna 2007).   The element comp (or camp) appears to be that much written about by Gelling (e.g. Signposts 75ff), but is assumed by her to occur mostly in Kent and Sussex, and is not supposed to be so common.   Is this the same word?    It does not seem to be mentioned by Fägersten in his Dorset book, and of course we have no element list yet for PN Do.   In any case, it seems that it must have some specialized meaning, as these names occur in list of other fields which are not comps.

 

les Compis (Barnsley)

Westercomp (Eastington)

Wolmerescompe (Freshwater)

la Compes (Hinton)

Alrammescompe (Hurn)

Paycompe (Milford)

Compes (Mudeford)

les Compis (Somerford)

Dudecomp (“)

Compes (Street)

 

Keith

 

 

 
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