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Place-Name Form: Halywolmede

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Modern Name
TypeField
Grid ReferenceSK 22108 29133
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 firma unius pr[a]ti voc. Halywolmede recorded in Tutbury Honor account. This meadow was east of the village and said in 1559 to be used as pasture for the minstrels' horses for 2 days from 12th hour on 14th August: VCH X, p.20. There was evidently a holy well (sacrum fontem) on the east side of the town where 'Holywell hill' was so called in the late 13th century. Recorded itself in the 1370s, the well was probably the same as the St Werburgh's well mentioned in 1533 and that dedication links it with the cult of the Mercian princess centred on the church at Hanbury: VCH X, p. 110.

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