Flegcroft
Early-attested site in the Parish of Whittlesey
Etymology
Flegcroft. Cf. (le ) flech (e )13thThorney , 1328, 1423Ct , Flegcrofts 1636 BedL, Flagcroft 1712 Fenland iv, Flycroft c. 1825 O.S. This name, with Flag Fen infra 264, is to be compared with East and West Flegg Hundred (Nf), Eastflec , Flecwest DB, Estfleg (ge ), Westfleg (ge )1175–95 P.These all contain the word flegge recorded in the Promptorium Parvulorum as the equivalent of segge and used apparently alike of the plant itself and of a district where it grows. As noted by Anderson (EHN i, 70) the word is to be identified with Danish flæg . It is related to the more common flag . For further examples from Cambridgeshire, v. infra 324.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Bassenhally Fm, Bassenhally Field, Bassenhally Moor and Bassenhally Pits
- Beggars Bridge Fm
- Canter's Doles
- Eastrea
- Eldernell
- Feldale
- Funthams, Funtham's Dike, Funtham's Lane
- Glass Moor
- King's Delph
- Lattersey Field, Lattersey Hill
- Lesh Fen
- The Lipneas
- Must Fm
- Northey
- North Fen
- Oldeamere
- Snoots
- Stampfen Drove
- Stonald Field
- Turningtree Bridge
- Wype Doles
Other OS name
- Angle Bridge
- Angle Corner
- Bank Fm
- Black Bush
- Blackbush Drove
- Black Dike
- Bradley Fen
- Bunting's Drove
- Burnthouse Fm
- Chapelbridge
- Church Field
- Coates
- Cold Harbour Drove
- Common Drove
- Counter Drain
- Cow Way
- Cross Drain
- Cross Drove
- Decoy Fm
- Delph Dike
- Dog in a Doublet Bridge
- Duncombe's Corner
- Earl's Lands Fm
- Field's End Bridge
- Flag Fen
- Grange Fm
- Gravel Dike
- Gull Fm
- Half Acre Drove
- Hemmerley Gravel
- Inham's End
- Kingsland
- Lake Drove
- Long Drove
- Lord's Holt
- Marriott's Drove
- Northey Fm
- Northey Gravel
- Plumtree Fm
- Pondersbridge
- Popely's Gull
- Prior's Fen
- Quaker's Drove
- Reach
- Slatebarn Drove
- Suet Hills
- Ten Acre Drove
- Town Fifty
- Turf Drove
- The Turves
- The Wash
- West Fen Drove