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Survey of English Place-Names

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Lund's Fm

Early-attested site in the Parish of Magdalen Laver

Historical Forms

  • Lande 1254 Ass

Etymology

Lund's Fm (6″) (near the North Weald boundary) owes its name to the family of John de la Lund de Wauda (1255Ass ), but as the name is also spelled Launde in the same document and Lande in 1254 (Ass ), it is clearly derived from ME  launde , OFr  launde , 'glade,' and not from ON  lundr, 'grove.' The modern form is then an inverted spelling, parallel to that of Gunters infra 547.

Places in the same Parish