The point of my paper was that that is a rare meaning (probably with only three or four examples in total), and not the one found in the numerous field-names.
Keith
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Keith Briggs <[log in to unmask]> wrote:-
> ... I now note these in the Suffolk Feet of Fines (ed. Rye):
> Ralph de Moresharewe 12 Hy 3 [1227/8] Adam de Grymesharewe 13 Ed 2
> [1319/20].
> These two cases seem to indicate that harewe could form an element in compound place-names. How do we explain this?
Anglo-Saxon "hearg" = "heathen temple", as in Harrow-on-the-Hill in Middlesex.
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