Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• magna mara & parva mara e13 Orm2i423–4

• the water of Bulmer and the water of Shalmer 1553 Sheaf317,78

Etymology

, 1656 Orm2 , the larger of two lakes , magna mara & parva mara e13 Orm2 i423–4 ; the smaller ( drained in 1816 Orm2 loc. cit. , flooded again 1 ″ OS 7th ed . ) was the water of Bulmer and the water of Shalmer 1553 Sheaf3 17, 78 , ' bull'smere ' and ' shallow mere ' , v. bula , sc(e)ald , mere 1 .