Great Ervilles FarmGreat Ervilles Farm, Denmead |
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Denmead Hampshire SU6312 |
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old map: | 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXVII.11 |
Great Ervills Ervills, Great otherwise: Ereuelles, 1380; Ervelles, 1397; Arvilles, 1557; Erfildes, 1586 |
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Coates 1989 ERVILLS (GREAT), farm in Hambledon Obscure. Appears to be a surname of French origin. The manor is sometimes called 'Ervelles Exton' (eg 1418), but no connection with EXTON, 5 miles NW, is known, and the relation between the two parts of this name is unknown. We might hazard that the name is really hypothetical Old English 'Eorthhyllas'='earth hills', from the two barrows adjacent to the farm. But no exact parallel for such an early and permanent change of [th] ==> [v] is known in Ha. |