Broadmayne
Major Settlement in the Parish of Broadmayne
Historical Forms
- Maine 1086 DB 1236 FF
- Meine 1200 Cur
- Meines 1204 FF
- Mayne 1236 1244 Ass 1348 Cl
- Brademaene 1202 FF
- Brademeyne 1244 Ass
- Brodemayn(n)(e) 1288 1297 Pat 1575 Saxton
- Brodemaygne 1392 Weld1
- Brodmayne 1297 Pat
- Brodemayne Martel(l) 1368 FF 1378,1387 Cl
- Broadmayne otherwise Mayne-Martel 1785 SalisT
- Mayn(e) Martel(l) 1244,1288 Ass 1280 Ipm 1297 Pat 1450 Cl
- Mayn(e) Martill 1428 FA
- Meyne Martel(l) 1268 Ass 1280 Ass 1288 Ass 1291 Tax 1428 FA
- Maigne Martel(l) 1350,1354 Pat
- 'the hundred of Brodmayne' in 1297 Pat
Etymology
From PrWelsh main2 'a rock, a stone', no doubt with reference to the many large sarsens scattered around Little Mayne Fm ½ mile NE of Broadmayne village (called Stone Circle 6″, but according to RCHM 2513 'a natural phenomenon…despite alleged arrange- ments in one or more circles or avenues'). 'Broad' to distinguish it from Little Mayne in W Knighton par. supra , v. brād ; Martel (l ) from the family of that name which held this manor from at least as early as the beginning of the 13th cent. (Eudo Martel (l )1202, 1236 FF, Helewise Martel (l )1268Ass , Roger Martel (l )1280 Hutch3, v. Hutch3 2539, cf. Hinton Martell par. infra ). It is referred to as 'the hundred of Brodmayne ' in 1297 Pat.