Nightlayer's Fen, Long Nightlayer's Drove, Short Nightlayer's Drove
Early-attested site in the Parish of Chatteris
Historical Forms
- Nightlayer, Nightlayer Drain 1750 Elstobb 1891 CCC
Etymology
Nightlayer's Fen, Long Nightlayer's Drove, Short Nightlayer's Drove (6″) is Nightlayer , Nightlayer Drain 1750Elstobb , 1891CCC . We may possibly compare Godyeuesleyr 13thWMP (Babraham), le ley (e )re , ffirstley (e )re , lastley (e )re , myddylley (e )re 1498, 1518Ct , Middiller ', lastlyer 1521 ib., lestlyre 1537 ib. (Over), Great Layers 18..Map (Soham). layer is presumably the common word lair (OE leger ), but just in what sense it is used here is obscure.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Old Halves
- Restages
- Warth's Old Halves
- Wenny Fm and Severals
- Willey Fm
- Birch Fen
- Holwoods Fm
- Honey Hill
- Horseway
- Horslode Fen Fm
Other OS name
- Horseley Fen Drove
- Acre Fen
- Block Fen
- Burrow Lands
- Campole Drove
- Common Fm
- Curf, Curf Fen
- Dean Hill
- Mount Pleasant
- Turf Fen
- Delve Fm
- Ferry Burrows
- Ferry Burrows Drove
- Ferry Drove
- Forty Foot Fm
- Holwood Ho
- Horseley Fen
- How Fen
- Langwood Fm, Langwood Fen
- Langwood Hill Drove
- Normoor
- Pickle Fen
- Slade Field
- Slade Lode Bridge
- Stocking Drove
- Tuck's Gate
- Westmoor
- White Ho Fm