[WED]Difficult Will

[Lyn Nunn]

 Thanks Stan - was busy studying the enclosure book by Cuthbert Rose for
 hints. I think Stoughton ..... might be Stoughton Elwood and reading 
Hazel's
 book it sort of makes sense if Elwood is/was a word - perhaps meaning old
 wood.

 Lyn

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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.'
>>
>> Regards Stan  Mapstone
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