Greenham
Major Settlement in the Parish of Greenham
Historical Forms
- Greneham 1086 DB 1248,1284 Ass 1517 DInc
- Grenham 1185 RR
- Grenham Hospitalium 1220 Fees
Etymology
Probably 'green river-meadow', v. grēne 1 , hamm , referring to land by R. Kennet. Hospitalium from the Knights Hospitallers, to whom the manor was granted in the late 12th cent. (VCH iii, 319).
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Aldern Bridge
- Aldernbridge Gully
- Ball's Hill, Ballshill Gully
- Barnclose Copse
- Barn Copse
- Bishop's Green
- Bowdown Ho, Bowdown Fm, Bowdown Copse
- Brown's Pond
- Bury's Bank
- Clarke's Gully
- Crook's Copse
- Dirty Ground Copse
- Drayton's Gully
- Gorse Covert
- Greenham Common
- Greenham Lodge
- Greyberry Copse
- Grove Cottage
- Handpost Gully
- High Wood
- Hill Ho
- The Hut
- Littlemead Reeves
- Lodge Covert
- Lower Fm
- Newtown Pond
- Noah's Ark
- Oak Plantation
- One Tree Cottage
- Peaked Hill
- Peckmoor Copse
- Pigeon's Fm
- Pile Hill
- Pilehill Cottages
- Reeves's Copse
- Sandleford Cottage, Sandleford Fm, Sandleford Park, Sandleford Priory
- Slockett's Copse
- Stroud Green
- The Swan Inn
- Thorn Bush
- Waterleaze Copse
- Wellmoor Copse
- West Wood
- Westwood Fm
- Woodhouse Pond
- Workhouse Spinney
- Young Copse