Holme, now Biggin Mills
Early-attested site in the Parish of Newton
Historical Forms
- Holme 1086 DB
- Holm(e) 1232 Ass 1544 LP
- Holm(e) juxta Dounebrugge 1293 Ass
- Holm(e) Durebrugge ib.
- Holm(e) Clyfton 1394 ib
- molend. de Holm qui voc. Cothele, molendin. de Cottele c.1300 Combe
- Holme al. Newbyggyng 1544 LP
- Biggin al. Holme 1652,1673 FF
- Holme al. New Biggin, Biggin Mills al. Cuttle Mills 1629 DKRxxxix
- Holme Meadow c.1840 TA
Etymology
v. holmr . The place lies near the Avon. For Cuttle v. supra 2–3. “Antiently this was called Holme , having been a village in the Conq. time, though now there be scarce any thing left but a Mill: which name it took from the situation, lying in a nook betwixt the River Avon and a small brook…for such grounds as are in whole, or for the most part, compassed with water, are so called, as we may observe almost everywhere” (Dugdale 9).