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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Pudmore Fm and Pond

Early-attested site in the Parish of Elstead

Historical Forms

  • to pudan more (sic) 909 BCS627 c.1150
  • Pudmore Common 1668 SACxviii

Etymology

Pudmore Fm (6″) and Pond are to pudan more (sic)909 (c. 1150) BCS 627, Pudmore Common 1668 SAC xviii. 'Puda 's mor or damp land.' The OE form shows common confusion between the symbols for p and w .