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‘Honeygreave’ and the Rock House ferry
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Dyson, Tony |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | I In the published Bebington parish registers for the years 1558 to 1701 there occurs, 44 times between 1585 and 1692, the placename ‘Honeygreave’, 30 in relation to christenings and 14 to burials (see appendix).1 The name, which does not recur after 1701 in the unpublished registers, was one of only three apart from those of familiar villages or hamlets — used to denote the dwellings of individual parishioners. Its meaning is ‘Honey Grove’ or ‘Honey Wood’, and the allusion is apparently to honeysuckle, as in the Landican fieldname ‘Honey Field’.2 This pleasingly bucolic toponym is unremarkable in all respects but one: it is not found anywhere else. No trace of Honeygreave features in the recent and exhaustive survey The place-names o f Cheshire,3 even in the sizeable appendix of rare, unidentified or failed names. But although the record of its existence is confined to the Bebington registers, its occurrence there was nevertheless frequent enough, and its demise recent enough, to call for explanation. What and where was it, and why did it fail? The enigmatic ‘Honeysuckle Wood’ deserves attention; certainly more than it was given in the published registers, where no editorial explanation or comment is offered and where it is not even included in the index — hence its absence from Place-names. |
| Starting Page | 105 |
| Ending Page | 130 |
| Page Count | 26 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.3828/transactions.156.6 |
| Volume Number | 156 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.hslc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/156-6-Dyson.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.3828/transactions.156.6 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
