Cumnor
Major Settlement in the Parish of Cumnor
Historical Forms
- Cumenoran 821 BCS366 c.1200
- Cumanora 821 c.1240 ib
- (ad) Cumanoran 931 c.1200 ib
- Cumenoran 968 c.1200 ib
- Cuminora 1166 P
- Cumenor' 1201 Cur 1252 Ch
- Cummenore 1241 Ass
- Cumenhouere 1251–64 S c.1280
- Cunemore 1275–6 RH
- Comenore 1086 DB 1261–71 S c.1280 FA 1412
- Connor 1316 FA
- Cumner 1830 OS
Etymology
'*Cuma's hill-slope', v ōra , the village lies on gently rising ground. BCS 155, a spurious charter, names Cumma as abbot of Abingdon c. 730. The noun cuma means 'guest, stranger'.
For the forms Colmanora , Colmenoran , Colmonora , given under Cumnor in DEPN and Skeat, v. 462–3. It was recognised in Stenton (4) that this was the name of a piece of woodland appurtenant to the Abingdon estate, and Grundy also realised that it had no connection with Cumnor.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Ash Copse
- Beacon Hill
- Bean Wood
- Belvedere
- Birch Copse
- Blind Pinnocks
- Botley Pound
- Brickkiln Fm
- The Broad Oak
- Busby's Fm
- Bushy Leaze Copse
- Cammoor Copse
- Cowleaze Copse
- Croft Cottage
- Cumnor Folly
- Denman's Copse and Denman's Fm
- Elm Croft
- Elms Fm
- Farmoor
- Filchampstead
- Fox Covert
- Froghole Cottage
- Further Clay Hill
- Gallants Brake
- Great Plain
- Guy's Copse
- Henwood Fm
- Hid's Brake
- Hid's Copse
- Higgins's Copse
- Hill Copse
- Hurst Barn and Hurst Hill
- Jumpers
- Larkbeare
- Lashford Lane
- Limekiln Copse
- Long Copse
- The Long Leys
- Longmoor Brake and Longmoor Copse
- Lord's Copse
- Manor Fm
- Nealing's Copse
- Noble's Hole Fm
- Normanhurst
- Oaken Holt
- Physic Well
- Pinkhill
- Powder Hill Copse
- Radbrook Common
- Red House Fm
- Rockley Cottages
- Rough Common
- Rough Copse
- Saddle Copse
- Smith Hill Copse
- Songer's Copse
- Stimpson's Copse and Stimpson's Fm
- The Uplands
- Vine Inn
- Well Yard Copse
- Woodend Fm