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 ).