Fowlmere
Major Settlement in the Parish of Fowlmere
Historical Forms
- Fuglemære, Fugelesmara 1086 DB
- Fugela 1155–7 P
- Fuelmere 1086 InqEl
- Fulgh(e)mer' 1220 Cur
- Fowelmere 1322 Ipm
- Fulemere 1086 ICC 1185 RotDom 1258 Ch
- Fulemera 1086 InqEl
- Fulmere 1086 1428 FA
- Fulmere al. Foulmere 1477 Pat
- Folemere 1227 FF
- Fulmar 1554 CHuASv
- Foulmer(e) 1313 Pat
- Foulemer' 1447 Rental 1450 Pat
- Fowlemer(e) 1494 Ipm 1570 SR 1583 ADvi
- Fowlmore 1694 EAx
- Foul(e)mire 1616 Ely 1663 CHuASv c.1840 TA
Etymology
'Wild-birds' mere,' v. fugol , mere and cf. Fulmer (PN Bk 237–8).“An actual mere, noted for its wealth of wild fowl, existed here till more than half a century ago. It is now a worthless patch of land, full of springs and runlets” (Conybeare, Highways and Byways in Cambs. and Ely 230). Cf. Foulmire Feninfra 233.