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Sanham Green

Other OS name in the Parish of Hungerford

Historical Forms

  • Stanham Down and Stanham Green 1848 TA

Etymology

, 1761 Rocque , c. 1825RecOffCat , Sannum Farm c. 1825 Stanham Down and Stanham Green 1848TA ; the forms are late , but the name could mean ' green of the people of Sanden ' , v. hǣme and Sanden 304 , and cf. Charnham Street 302 .