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Survey of English Place-Names

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Grange Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Buckminster

Historical Forms

  • Grange farm 1925 Kelly

Etymology

, Grange farm 1925 Kelly , cf. the grange of Bukmynster 1537 MinAccts , the Grange 1700, 1708, 1724, 1745, 1788Terrier , 1841TA , 1846, 1877 White , v. grange . By at least 1846 ib , The Grange was the name of a field on the south side of the village where there were ' some traces of a religious house which belonged to Kirby Bellars Priory ' .