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Survey of English Place-Names

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St Rumbald's Well

Other OS name in the Parish of Brackley

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is mentioned by Leland ( ii , 37 ) as ' S . Rumoaldes Welle , where they say that within a fewe days of his birth he preched . ' According to the same authority the saint was born in King 's Sutton ( v. infra 59 ) .

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement