Place-Name Form: Cletes

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Modern Name
TypeField
Grid ReferenceSK 22321 28897
ParishTutbury
CountyStaffordshire
SourceSC6/988/20
Source Full Title[Tutbury Honor]: Stafford Tutbury, &c. (as in SC 6/988/14): Stafford Description of Officer: Divers Ministers
Source LocationTNA
Source Catalogue ReferenceSC6/988/20
Source URL
Date 2 to 3 Hen V (1414-1416)
Notes unius terr' plac' voc' Cletes iuxta Obholme recorded in the Tutbury Honor accounts. See Clethale, Worcs.: Professors Ekwall and Zachrisson suggest that here we have an OE clǣte , a side-form with i -mutation of OE clāte , found as ME clet , clete , 'burdock.' It has survived as dial. cleat , 'coltsfoot.' Middle English Dictionary: clēte, n: burdock

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