Old Fordey Fm
Early-attested site in the Parish of Soham
Historical Forms
- Fordey(lake) 1480,1526 StJohn's
- Great Fordey 1541 Spinney
- Fordy 1604 Atkyns
- Fordea 1636 BedL
- Little Fordey 1541 Spinney
Etymology
Old Fordey Fm is Fordey (lake )1480, 1526StJohn 's , Great Fordey 1541Spinney , Fordy 1604Atkyns , Fordea 1636 BedL. New Fordey Fm (6″) is Little Fordey 1541Spinney . 'Low-lying land by the ford,' v. ford , ēg . An old chalk and gravel ford through the Ouse has been discovered by the site of Little Thetford Chapel, with a piled causeway in the peat leading to it from Fordey, v. CAPr xxxiii, 112.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Barcham Fm
- Barway, with Barway Fen and Barraway Siding
- Blakeney Fen
- Blockmoor Fen
- Clipsall Field, Clipsall Corner
- Delph Bridge
- Harrimere Drain
- The Hasse, Great Hasse Fm, Little Hasse Fm and Hasse Drove
- Henny Hill, Henny Fm
- Mettleham Fm
- No Ditch Field
- Wet Sealodes, Dry Sealodes
- Shell Fm
- Soham Mere
Other OS name
- Angle Common
- Angle Fm
- Ash Closes
- Ash Tree Fm
- Bancroft Field
- Barway Bridge
- Black Drove
- The Bracks
- Bracks Drove
- Broad Hill
- Broad Hill Drove
- Broad Piece
- Burgess Corner
- Burry Crofts Field, Castles Fm
- College Fm
- Crow Fen
- Crow Hall
- Down Field
- East Fen Common
- East Fen Drove
- Eau Fen Fm
- Eye Hill Drove
- Eye Hill Fm
- Fodder Fen
- Fodder Fen Drove
- Foxlow Field
- Frith Fm
- Gault Pit
- Goose Fen
- Goose Fen Bridge
- Great Fen
- Great Fen Drove
- Green Hills
- Half Acre Fm
- Ham Corner
- Hodson's Fm
- The Holt
- Horse Bridge
- Horse Crofts
- North Horse Fen
- South Horse Fen
- Wet Horse Fen
- Horsefen Drove
- Hundred Acres
- Lode End Bridge
- Long Dolver Drove
- The Lots
- Mere Side
- Mettleham Drove
- Mill Croft
- Moat Closes
- North Field
- Parish Bush Drove
- Qua Fen Common
- Redland Field
- St John's Fm
- Long Sandford
- Sayer's Lake Drove, Sayer's Lake Field
- Sedge Fen
- Shade Common
- Short Butts
- Small Path
- Soham Causeway
- Soham Cotes
- Soham Fen
- Soham Tunnel Drove, Soham Tunnel Drain
- Studfield Fm
- Tiger Cottages
- Tiled Ho Fm
- The Wash
- The Weatheralls