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Survey of English Place-Names

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Angers Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Okeford Fitzpaine

Historical Forms

  • Angers Fm 1811 OS
  • Aungiers 1601 Hutch3
  • Andyers or Aungiers 1774 Hutch1 1870 Hutch3

Etymology

, Angers Fm 1811 OS, Aungiers 1601 Hutch3, Andyers or Aungiers (a farm) 1774 Hutch1, 1870 Hutch3 , cf. Gt Angers , Lt Angers 1840TA , no doubt to be associated with Baldewyn Aunger 1315 FF , Angerus capellanus de Childacford n.d.(1372) ChrP ; for the Continental pers. n. Anger , either a Norman form of ON  Ásgeirr or Fr  Angier from OG  Ansger , v. Reaney s. n. Anger , Feilitzen 166 ; the farm was in Child Okeford par . until 1884 .