Cherque FarmCherque Farm, Gosport |
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Gosport Hampshire SU5601 |
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old map: | 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXXXII.8 |
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Coates 1989 CHARK in Crofton [Fareham] (A fancy spelling is preserved in 'Cherque Farm'.) Gover compares the English name for a Welsh town 'Chirk' from W 'ceiriog'='rocky'. The Hampshire name appears, by that theory, to be for W 'carreg'='rock'. It is not known what rock is alluded to. Perhaps rather an inexplicable alteration of Old English 'cert/caert'='rough common', found in simplex names in Surrey and Kent. Chark 'Common' is on an outlier of the Barton/Bracklesham Tertiary sequence of rocks, said to be 'poor in texture, ill drained, acid and highly podsolized' (Tavener 1962: 33). |