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Syward Lodge

Other OS name in the Parish of Dorchester St Peter & All Saints

Etymology

[ ˈsaiwəd ] , no doubt named from the family of Roger Syward who had a tenement in Dorchester in 1363–1379Ilch , cf. also terram Cantarie Johannis Seward 1423 DorR ( on ' Seward's chantry ' in the church of the Holy Trinity , v. DorR xlv ) .