[WED]Difficult Will

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In a message dated 08/07/2005 22:49:19 GMT Daylight Time,  
lnunn@bigpond.net.au writes:
An acre of meadow lying at Quabb?

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Hi Lyn,
>From Hazel Hudson's book "The New Wedmore  Chronicles"

Quab comes from the Old English or Saxon word cwabba, meaning  a marsh or 
bog. It describes a boggy area which gives rise to Blackford  Brook..... and the 
tributaries a Wedmore brook. Quab Lane is one of the old  tracks leading 
through the medieval open fields........ all the way to  Stoughton. It is first 
mentioned in 1559 as 'Quabbe.'

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