Snoots
Early-attested site in the Parish of Whittlesey
Historical Forms
- The Snoots 1712 Fenlandiv
- Atlessnote, Ormmeressnote 13th Thorney
- Fensnote, Scharpenhalesnot, Southalesnote 1446 Ct
- Rotyngsnote 1459 Rental
- Mednall Snout, Vicars Snout 1603 Survey
Etymology
Snoots (6″) is The Snoots 1712 Fenland iv, v. snote . In Whittlesey documents we have reference to numerous snotes including Atlessnote , Ormmeressnote 13thThorney , Fensnote , Scharpenhalesnot , Southalesnote 1446Ct , Rotyngsnote 1459Rental , Mednall Snout , Vicars Snout 1603Survey , presumably all of them points of dry land on the edge of the fens or of Whittlesey Mere. In Thorney we have reference also to Barsnoht and Redisnoht . This would seem to be the same word with a curious intrusive h . Cf. infra 344, 371.
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
- Flegcroft
- 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
- 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