Musgreve
Early-attested site in the Parish of Rushbury
Historical Forms
- Mullesgreve 1235 Eyton
- Mulesgrave or Mulsgrave 1655 SRO1264/3
- Mousegrave 1658 SRO840/2/3/75
- Muse grave 1658–9 ib
- -greve 1660–1 ib
Etymology
Musgreve (a wood, lost) is Mullesgreve 1235 Eyton, Mulesgrave or Mulsgrave 1655SRO 1264 /3 , Mousegrave 1658SRO 840 /2 /3 /75 , Muse grave 1658–9ib /76 ,-greve 1660–1ib /78 . Second element grǣfe , perhaps in the specialised sense 'coppice'. The first element is uncertain: the -ll - of the 1235 form tells against mūl 'mule' or the personal name Mul . VCH X66 says that this wood may have been contiguous with Oak Wd. They were separate but connected by a track in 1610.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Lakehouse
- Longville in the Dale
- Lushcott
- Court Ho
- Oak Wd, Oakwood Fm
- Ape Dale
- Coats
- Gilberries
- Stanway
- Wilderhope
- The Ditches
- Lutwyche
Other OS name
- The Larches
- Longville Coppice
- New Pltn
- Oakham
- Sapling Coppice
- Warwicks Head
- The Wood
- Woodside
- Black Wd
- Coats Wd
- Crab Wd
- Heath Brook
- Heath Common
- Hedgefields Barn
- High Wd
- Manor Fm
- Roman Bank
- Hill End
- Sharpstones
- Wondrell Coppice
- Brook Ho
- Coley Brook
- Hargrove Wd, Hargrove Cottage and Hargrove Fm
- Lutwyche Arms Inn
- Peartree
- Plough Inn
- Wallsbank
- Bloemfontain Gorse
- The Bog
- Brick Kiln Pltn
- Crowfield Pltn
- Fegg
- Greens Rough
- Hope's Cross
- Murder Pool
- Pilgrim Cottage and Pilgrim Lane
- Pudding Bag
- Rickhouse Coppice
- Wilderhope Coppice
- Wrensnest
- The Yeld