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Survey of English Place-Names

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Fryerning

Major Settlement in the Parish of Ingatestone and Fryerning

Historical Forms

  • Ingā 1086 DB
  • Ging(es), Gynge(s) 1291 For 1306 FF
  • Gynge(s) Hospital 1341 NI
  • Gynge(s) Freren 1542 LP
  • Ying Hospitall 1375 Cl
  • Yeng Hospitall 1381 Pat
  • Ing Hospitall 1486–93 ECP
  • Friering 1469 MinAcct
  • Fryer Inge 1539 LP
  • Fryering 1727 EssPRii
  • Freern 1543 FF
  • Fryen, Fryerne, Fryerning t.Eliz ChancP
  • Frienin 1627 EssPRii
  • Fryan End 1658 ib
  • Gynge Fryerne alias Gynge Berners alias Gynge Hospitall alias Inge at stone 1559 EASvi
  • Gynghospytall al. Ingatstone al. Imverners 1559 FF

Etymology

For Gynges v. Margaretting infra 258. Fryerning belonged to the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem t. Hy 2. Cf. Friern Barnet (Mx), which also belonged to the Knights Hospitallers On the dissolution of the monasteries it was granted to William Berners (cf. M ii, 48).