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Weathergrove (Fm)

Early-attested site in the Parish of Sandford Orcas

Historical Forms

  • (on) wederangrafe scagan 938 BCS730 12
  • (oþ) wederan grafes suð ende 956 12 ib
  • Weregrave 1086 DB
  • Weregraua, Werregraue Exon
  • Wedergrove 1276 RH 1310 Cl
  • Wedergrave 1303 FA
  • Wedergraue 1378 Digby
  • Wedegrave 1278 Misc
  • Wethirgrave 1454 Cl
  • Wethergrave 1471 IpmR
  • Weathergrove, Weather Grove Md 1838 TA

Etymology

Possibly 'Wedera's grove', from grāf(a) and an OE  pers.n. Wedera which would be a weak form of a pers.n. recorded once as Uuedr (probably from OE weder 'weather', v. Redin 24) in 704 (14) BCS 108(S 245; this Wessex charter may be spurious, but its witness list is considered authentic), cf. Wetheringsett Sf (DEPN) which may contain the same pers.n. Weder (a ).