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Oops! My 13c was a typo. I’ve got 12c everywhere else. It could well be with the start of the construction of the Bolbec Castle that my Rickard stonemason forebear came to the village. From: BRIGGS JOHN Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 6:06 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: The Chatel Stream Doug Rickard wrote: I discounted the Chatel/Chateau connection as Bolbec Castle in the middle of the village was not built until the 13c and the name of the Chatel Stream appears to pre-date that. Of course there could have been a small castle or fort thereabouts earlier but no archaeological evidence appears to have been unearthed. Anyway the Bolbec Castle site has its own stream, a spring named Sweet Alice. The 13th century would be an odd time to be building a castle de novo - unless, of course, you are Edward I in Wales or Scotland. Wikipedia (bless it!) dates the castle to The Anarchy in the 12th century, which is considerably more plausible. John Briggs