English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Craze Loman

Early-attested site in the Parish of Tiverton

Historical Forms

  • Lonmela 1086 DB
  • Lumeneclauill 1238 Ass
  • Lomene Clavile 1285 FA 1287 Misc 1318 FF
  • Clavylys Lomyn 1456 IpmR

Etymology

For the River Loman, v. supra 8. John de Clavile held the manor in 1284 (FA) and probably Craze is a corruption of Clavile 's through an intermediate form *Craviles by dissimilation, cf. Halshayne infra 633.