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Fiddleford Mill

Other OS name in the Parish of Sturminster Newton

Historical Forms

  • molendinum…de Fitilford' 1338–40 Glast

Etymology

, 1811 OS , molendinumde Fitilford '1338–40 Glast , cf. Fiddleford Md 1839TA , named from Fiddleford in Okeford F . par . supra ; the mill is probably identical with (pontem iuxta ) molendinum Ricardi Mauri m14Glast mentioned in the bounds of Sturminster Newton , cf. Mauryesgarston ', Alicia Maurymes 'e14GlastE , Richard Mauri 1307 (15) ForReg , Richard Maury 1327SR , tenementi Ricardi Mauri m14Glast , v. gærs-tūn ' paddock ' .