English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Grange Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Pulham

Etymology

Grange Fm (ST 717090), named from a grange or granges belonging to Bindon Abbey (1189), referred to as (usque ad ) Grangias monachorum de Binnedune Hy 3 (14) Cerne (in the bounds of Blackmoor Forest infra ), grangiam abbatis de Bynendon de Pulham 1237 Cl, v. grange 'an outlying farm belonging to a religious house where crops were stored'.