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Court Fm or Carrant's Court Fm, Carrant's Court Manor

Other OS name in the Parish of Swanage

Historical Forms

  • 'the tenement of John Carante' 1474 ib
  • Car(r)antes Court 1557,1558 Mow
  • Carrans Cort 1639 Hutch3
  • Court Fm 1839 TA

Etymology

( all lost ) , 1861 Hutch3 , 'the tenement of John Carante '1474 ib, Car (r )antes Court 1557, 1558Mow ,Carrans Cort 1639 Hutch3, Court Fm 1839TA , cf. Carrantes Close 1565Mow , Carrantes felde 1566Mow , Courthill 1882 Robinson , from the Carrant family who held this property from 1411 to 1534 , cf. William Carent 1411 Hutch3, 1438AddCh et freq , v. court , clos(e) , feld ; at about SY 026788 .