Gransmoor
Major Settlement in the Parish of Burton Agnes
Historical Forms
- Grentesmor(a), Grenzmore 1086 DB
- Grancemor(e) 12th,13th Bridl 1212 Cur 1240 FF 1265 YI
- Craucemore 1199 P
- Crauncemor(e) 1268,1346 FF
- Grauntemore 1246 Ass
- Grauncemor(e) 1254 Pat 1285 KI 1506 Test
- Cransmor 1534 FF
- Graynsmore 1573 FF
- Grans(e)more 1583 FF 1650 ParlSurv
Etymology
'Grante 's moorland,' v. mor . A pers. name Grante is known in England; v. Gransden, PN BedsHu 258 and Mawer, Problems 103, 127. It is also found in Grantley (WRY), Granteleg c. 1030 YCh 7, Grentelai DB (with Grante as an uninflected genitive), and perhaps also in Grantham (L). The early spellings Grance - suggest an OScand genitive Grants . This spelling with ce , as well as variations -aun - and Grent -, is due to Anglo-Norman influence, which may also account for the 12th-century pers. name Grente (YCh 832), though Grente (an i -mutated form) occurs in OE Grentesmere in an original 8th-century Warwickshire charter (KCD 724).