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Survey of English Place-Names

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Warmark

Early-attested site in the Parish of Toddington

Historical Forms

  • Warimarc, Waremerche 13th Dunst

Etymology

There is not much to go upon here. The suffix is clearly OE  mearc and the farm lies near the boundary of the parish. The first part may be an unrecorded OE  pers. name Wǣra , a short form of one of the numerous OE  names in Wǣr -. Alternatively it might be an OE  wearg (a )-mearc , 'outlaw(s)-mark,' referring perhaps to a place where such were to be found or where bodies might be thrown after execution. v. mearc .

Places in the same Parish