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Cuttle Mill

Early-attested site in the Parish of Paulerspury

Historical Forms

  • Cuttele 1327 SR
  • Kuttel 1332 SR
  • Cuttell Milne 1553 FF

Etymology

Cuttle Mill (6″). Cf. Cuttel (l )ebrok 13thFurtho , Cuttellebrygge 1390, Cuttulforth 1499, le Cotillmylle 1524Easton Neston , Cottle Myll t. Hy 8Ct , Cuttle Mill , Cuttle Brooke 1672LRMB .Cuttle-brook is mentioned by Bridges (i, 296) as the eastern boundary of Furtho. He also mentions a Cuttle Brook (now Ockley Brook) in Aynho (i, 134). Cuttle Meadow in Evenley and Cuttle Hill in Hinton, by the same stream, furnish a further parallel to this name, and there is a Cuttle Meadow by a stream in Ravensthorpe. All these point to Cuttle as a possible stream- name. Professor Ekwall calls attention to the probable parallel to be found in OGer  Cuttelbeke (11th cent.), which corresponds to a modern Kützelbach or Küttelbach , and to Cutelbecke , Kutelbeke (13th cent.), similar stream-names. According to Förstemann (ON i, 1766) these correspond to LGer küötelbieke , used of a small intermittent stream. There is also a Cuttle Brook in Temple Balsall (Wa), which may have the same history, and a Cuttle Bridge in Chilvers Coton in the same county, the home of John de Cuttele (1327 SR), otherwise John de Kuttel (1332 SR), near to which was Cuttell Milne (1553FF ), and also a Cuttle Mill in Curdworth, and a Cuttle in Long Itchington in the same county (ex inf. Mr F. T. S. Houghton). We may note also a molendinum q. v. Cuttele in Steeple Aston (O) in 1279 (RH).

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