Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Raven(e)smor(e) e13 ChMisc 1244 Ch 1216–72 1331

• Raven(e)smor(e) in Acton 1394 ChRR

• Raven(e)smor(e) bridge 1621 Sheaf

• Raven(e)smor(e) vulgarly Ranmore 1621 Orm2 1656

• Raven(e)smoor 1831 Bry

• Raynmore 1460 Chol

• Ranmore 1514 ChEx 1643 Orm2

• Ranmore Common & Ranmore Bridge c.1695 Chol

• Ranemore 1536 Sheaf

• Tranmore Green 1719 Sheaf

Etymology

'Raven's waste-land or marsh', from the pers.n. OE  Hræfn , ON  Hrafn , and mōr1 , with brycg , brōc , and grēne 2 . Cf. Raven 's Oak 1831 Bry, 1842 OS, (v. āc ), a lost hamlet or farmstead, and Ravensmoor Bank 1842 OS (v. banke ), and Ravensmoor Croft 1841TA (v. croft ).Ravensmoor Bridge was formerly named from Marsh Lane, v. 127supra , cf. Marsh Lane infra . Ravensmoor was ancient common, 'a very sweet and fruitful piece of ground…hitherto preserved for the relief of the poor neighbours to it, and others' (King, Vale Royal (1656) in Orm2 iii 292), cf. Burland supra , Swanley Hall infra . The brook becomes Edleston Brook 122.