Jeremy Hodgkinson wrote
> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 06:28:57 EDT
> Subject: Ferraria
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> The search for the location of the 'ferraria' mentioned for an unnamed manor
> in the Domesday Book of Sussex in 1086 has prompted the question, what is a
> ferraria?
>
> I should be interested in the opinions of list members. Does it refer to an
> ironworks, an iron mine or what? Does it have a different significance in
> different places?
>
> Jeremy Hodgkinson
>
> Wealden Iron Research Group
>
>
R. E. Latham, "Revised medieval Latin word-list" (OUP for the British
Academy, 1965) gives
ferraria, smithy, forge, 1086, c.1150
Yours sincerely
Stephen Benham
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The above is my own opinion and not necessarily that of the NLW
STEPHEN BENHAM
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