Findern
Major Settlement in the Parish of Findern
Historical Forms
- Findre 1086 DB
- Findern(e), Fyndern(e) c.1100,1114 BurtCh 1177–82 Burton 1185 BurtCh 1188–97 StoweCh 1204 Cur 1204 FF
- Finder(') 1183 P 1219 Cur
- Findena (sic) 1188 P
- Fyndren 1330 Ass
- Fyndryn 1332 Middleton
- Fenderne 1420 Cl
Etymology
This is a difficult name for which Ekwall (DEPN) suggests 'house for wood', v. fīn , ærn . He thinks that the second element is OE renn , an early side-form of ærn , though most spellings in fact point to ærn itself. It is more likely that if the first element is fīn in this p.n. its meaning is rather 'wood-pile shed'. Even so this does not take into consideration medial -d -, present in all forms noted.Ekwall compares with Dinder (So), but there the d is not found in the early forms and so the comparison is not exact. It would hardly seem fruitful to continue along these lines. No plausible solution can be offered and the name must be left an unsolved problem.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
Field
- Alderwasley
- Barn Field
- Bridge Foot Close
- Brook Meadow Shut
- Cardale
- Chapel Close
- Cock Pit
- The Cockram
- Conygreave
- Cote Close
- Cross Hill
- Crow Nest
- End Lands
- Eve of the Trent
- Farborrow
- Far Thorn
- Fennon Meadow
- Fox Cover
- Gorsey Leys
- Gravel Pit Close
- the Guals
- Happlepits
- Hays
- High Gate Hill
- Hook
- Hunger Hill
- Intake
- Lousy Butts
- Master Flat
- Mill Close
- Navigation Close
- Osier Bed
- Paddock
- Parsley Close
- Pease in Flat
- Pemmertons
- Pikes
- Pingle
- Pitlands
- Pool Head
- Quidges
- Rowpels
- Salterway
- Sand Banks
- Sand Sickles
- Seed Piece
- Short Leys
- Sixlands
- Slade
- Slang
- Sour Hays
- Staner Pool
- Stepping Close
- Stony Flat
- Whitmoor Meadow
- Wide Irons
- Willisden Field
- Wind Mill Piece
- Wren Park
- Brackley Platt Close
- Bromye Close
- Buttroe Close
- Fyndernewode
- le Gaytehouse
- le Gores
- Help Howke Meadow
- Hurimandole
- Lancks Croft Shutt
- le middel forlonge
- le Ouerclose
- Overhenmarshe
- Over Meares
- Rush Close
- Well Close
- le Werkhouse