Ravenser Odd
Early-attested site in the Parish of Kilnsea
Historical Forms
- (burgo) del Odd juxta Ravenserre 1235–49 Melsa
- Ravenserot 1251 Ch
- Odrauenser 1260 YI
- Rauenserhod 1260 Rental
- Raueneser Hodde 1260 YI
- Odd(e) 1260 Rental c.1400 Melsa
- Hodde 1260 Rental
- Rauenserod, Rauenserodd, Rauenserodde, Ravenserod, Ravenserodd, Ravenserodde 1273 Meaux 1342 SR
- Raveneserod(de) 1286 Pat 1349 Meaux
- Raueneshereodde 1300 YI
- Ravenser(r)e Odd 1349–67 Melsa
- Walter atte Kyrke de Rauenserodde 1293 Ass
Etymology
'Headland near Ravenser (infra 19),' v. oddr . Cf. Spurn Point (infra 17). Odd stood between the sea and the Humber a little to the south-west of Kilnsea, near Spurn Point. The brief history of the place which began as a small island t. Hy 3, developed to a fair town for merchants and shipping and finally disappeared about 1360, can easily be reconstructed from an inquisition of 1290 (YI 113-14) and accounts of Humber inundations in Melsa ii, 120-2, iii, 16, 79, 121-2. By 1273 it had a chapel (Meaux 94 d), and from this church Walter atte Kyrke de Rauenserodde (1293Ass ) took his name.