Minterne Magna
Major Settlement in the Parish of Minterne Magna
Historical Forms
- Minterne 987 KCD656(S1217,Finberg613) 13 GlastR 13 Pap 1258 Ass 1268,1288 Tax 1291 Pat 1296,1314 Ch 1318 Cerne 1344 14
- Mynterne 1268,1288 Ass 1291 Tax 1312 Pat 1332 SR 1527 Winch
- Upmynterne c.1325 GlastE
- 'Great Mynterne' 1363 Pat
- upper Mynterne 1575 PlR
- Mynterne Magna 1596 Prideaux
- Great Mynterne 1664 HTax
- Great Mintern(e) 1774 Hutch1 1870 Hutch3
- Minterne Magna 1669 Batten
- Mineterne 1603–25 LRMB
Etymology
Probably 'house at the place where mint grows' from OE minte and ærn. OE mynet 'a coin, money' is formally possible as first el. but looks unlikely here (cf. Fägersten 199, Watts CDEPN 416). The affixes Up (per ), Great and Magna (Lat magna 'great') distinguish this place from Minterne Parva (once in Buckland N. par., since 1933 in this par., v. 3239, 244).
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Alleymoor Wd
- Black Hole
- Black Wd
- Bridge Wd
- Bridle's Fm
- Bright's Barn
- Cadford Wd
- Hr Caines' Coppice & Lr Caines' Coppice
- Castle Hill Fm
- Common Wd
- Coneygar Wd
- Dungeon Hill
- Dunsley Plant.
- Farm Hill
- Farthing Gate
- (Lr) Grange Fm, Grange Woods
- Greenfields
- Green Lane
- Hardy's Copse
- Higher Common
- Higher Fm
- Highfield Plant., Highfields Fm, Highfields Wd
- Home Fm
- Hurdley Moor Fm, Hurdley Wd, Westmoor Hurdley
- Kents Plant.
- Lady Abingdon's Well
- Lane Cottages
- Lode Wd
- Lyon's Gate (Fm)
- Lyon's Wd
- Manor Fm
- Middlemarsh Common, Middlemarsh Grange
- Minterne Ho
- Minterne Park
- Minterne Seat Coppice
- Moor Plant.
- Mount Sylva
- Oxleaze Wd
- Penn Wd
- Pitty's Coppice
- Porthill Plant.
- Prince's Lane
- Rectory
- Remedy Coppice
- St Andrew's Church
- Sandy Lane
- The Shrubbery
- Strawberry Wd
- Hr West Wd & Lr West Wd
- White Horse Fm & White Horse P.H.