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Subject: WIDECOMBE - adjacent settlements?
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 20:46:30 -0000


Hi

In the Surnames of Devon by David Postles, he draws attention to
Widecombe as being unusual in that surnames that had declined
elsewhere in Devon during the later middle ages persisted here.
These locative surnames "derived from the hamlets within the
parish: Langworthy, Catrew, Widecombe, Nosworthy (Natsworthy),
and other adjacent settlements (Winyeat, Pethybridge)."

I have stared and stared at the map looking for WINYEAT but can't
find it. I have searched the Genuki Gazeteer and Mike Brown's
Dartmoor Gazeteer with no success.

Several place-name and surname dictionaries talk about a
WINGATE in Devon and I have finally found that - curtesy of the
Ordnance Survey map site - but it appears to be on the North
Coast - well away from all the WINDEATTs whose stamping
grounds are Dartmoor and South Hams.

Does anyone know where WINYEAT - adjacent to Widecombe -
might be?

Sandra

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sandra windeatt in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
interested in all WINDEATT/WINGATE/WINGET variants
URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~windeatt/name.ht

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