Elmer Fm
Early-attested site in the Parish of Middleton
Historical Forms
- elmeres pol, almerespol 953 BCS898 14th
- Elmere 1279 Ass 1339 Ipm
- Eylmer(e) 1296 SR 1298 FF
- Elemere 1304–7 Ipm 1309 Cl
- Elmergate 1608 BM
Etymology
This must be a compound of OE ǣl , 'eel,' and mere, hence 'eel-pool,' cf. Aimer (Do), earlier Elmere (BCS 781). The first reference is to a place in the bounds of Felpham. The bounds are hard to identify but it is difficult not to think they have something to do with Elmer. If they have, the pol must have been one belonging to Elmer, resulting in a curiously tautological name.