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Subject: [ENG-SHROP] Coed y Mynydd & Cay Mawr
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2003 09:45:44 EDT

> Hi, can anyone recognise this name - taken from a 1658 will: Coyd y
> mynyth
> It should be somewhere around Oswestry up to Wigynton and across to
> Ellesmere. I am sure of the C at the beginning of the word as the
> letter is the same formation used for that of County
>
> Another place is Cay Mawr, also in the same region - but that is from a
> 1525 will.

My Shropshire gazetteer has about 3000 places beginning with C, but not
these. I suggest they may be field names. My book of those is very small and
doesn't contain them either. I think the first means wood on the mountain and the
second means big field.

Shean Bostock, Madeley, Shropshire, England

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