Colne Engaine
Major Settlement in the Parish of Colne Engaine
Historical Forms
- Parva Colun 1086 DB
- Culum 1257 FF
- Colum Matild' 1232 FF
- Colum Viel 1254 ib
- Colum Engayne 1255 Ass
- Lytel-Colum 1272 FF
- Golun Vital 1235 Ass
- Culn Vital 1238 SR
- Collemmengayne 1287 Abbr
- parua Colne de Engayne 1288 Ass
- Colne Engayne 1303 FA
- Clone (sic) en Gayne 1328 Ch
- Gaynes Colne 1475–85 ECP 1548 Pat 1554 Oath
- Coingaine 1476 IpmR
- Engaynes also called Little 1594 N
- Engayne alias Gaynes t.Eliz ChancP
Etymology
Formerly called Little . Matild ' probably from Matilda , wife of Norman de Burgate who held land of Roger de Mores in 1235 (FF). v. Moors Fm infra . The other attributes derive from Viel Engayne (1218) whose surname also survives in Gaynes Park supra 84, 133. “Vulgarly' Gains Colne” (M ii, 217).