Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Kenardeslie 1086 DB

• Cholewardeleg' 1237 P

• Conewardel' 1237,1238 P

• Coneward' 1291 VR

• Conwardleg' 1238 ib

• aula de Conwardeley 1278–82 AddCh

• Conwardale 1291 Tax

• Cunewardesl' 1248 Cl

• Cunewardesleye 1276 1284 Ch

• Cunwardsley 1284 CRC

• Cumwardesleye 1277 Pat

• Conewardislegh 1272–90 ChFor

• Conewardesley(e) 1276 Ch 1361 ChFor 1629 Orm2ii154

• grangia de Conewardislegh 1336 VR

• Conardeslee 1357,1359 BPR 1361 ChFor

• Conerwardeslegh 1360 ChRR, BPR

• Conerwardesley 1500 VR

• Conwarsley 1538 Orm2

• Conersley 1538 Dugd

• the ferme of Conersley, the grange of Conersley 1542 Orm2

• Conersleyhey m16 AOMB397

• Conerley Grange m16 AOMB397

• Cuminsley alias Conwardesley 1629 Orm2

Etymology

'Cyneweard's clearing or wood', from the OE  pers.n. Cyneweard and lēah, with grange , (ge)hæg and hall (MedLat  aula ). This lost grange of Vale Royal, granted to that abbey by Edward I, who recovered it from Walter de Vernon for the purpose (1299 Orm2 ii168), is included here because it was originally part of Weaverham manor (1237 P). It lay in Weaverham and Hartford townships 1357 BPR iii283, 263, which probably explains why part of Hartford 188supra was in Weaverham parish. The location ought to be not far from Earnslow Grange infra , about 110–6371. The 1629 reference in Orm2 ii 154 appears in a list of manorial tenures in an Inquisition and does not prove the contemporary existence of the grange.