Frampton Court
Early-attested site in the Parish of Frampton
Historical Forms
- Frampton Ho 1811 OS
- The Court 1939 Kelly
Etymology
Frampton Court (on site of Benedictine Priory) (SY 625947) is Frampton Ho 1811 OS, The Court 1939 Kelly. The former priory here was a cell to the abbey of St Stephen's at Caen, which possessed this manor in 1086 DB. There are numerous references to the priory of Frampton in 13th-, 14th- and 15th-cent. documents (e.g. priore de Frunton '1214 P, prior de Fromton 1275 RH, etc., note also 'priory of Frompton alias Came '1387 Pat (for the spelling Came , cf. Winterborne Came par. 1 261 in which the manorial affix is also from the French p.n.), 'the manor called the priory of Frompton '1403 Fine. Frampton Court was rebuilt c.1704 (Hutch3 2299); the annual court leet for choosing a constable and tithingmen was held here (ib 2276), cf. Court Bridge 1673, 1676Sheridan , 1791 Boswell, v. court .
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Drinkwater Osier Beds
- Heaveclose Barn
- Rural Place
- South Slip
- Steps Barn, Stepps Fm
- Third Fall Withy Bed
- Tibbs Lane Plant.
- Town Hill, Town Hill Barn, Town Hill Coppice & Town Hill Slip Plant.
- Vicarage
- West Hill Bottom
- West Lodge
- Frampton Park
- Hogleaze Fm, Gt Hogleaze, Lt Hogleaze Barn
- Lambert's Plant.
- Littlewood, New Littlewood Fm
- Long Bottom (Plant.)
- Long Lands Barn
- New Barn
- North Slip
- Pigeon House Ctgs, Lr Pigeon House
- Furze Brake Plant.
- St Mary's Church
- All Families Plant.
- The Barracks
- Barrow Plant.
- Old Beech Plant.& Young Beech Plant.
- Blind Walk Plant.
- Chilly Knapp
- Church Bottom
- Clay Pit Plant.
- The Clift
- Cocked Hat Coppice
- Coler's Plant.
- Gayden Coppice
- Horse Close Copse
- Knowle Hill
- Lanchards (Slip) Plant.
- Long Ash Lane
- Long Plant.
- Magiston Barn, Lr Magiston
- Marl Close
- Metland's Wd
- Mill, Mill Race
- Northover(lost)
- Peacock Lodge & Peacock Plant.
- Southover Bottom & Southover Fm