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From: "David Booty" <>
Subject: Re: Melton Magna Henstead
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 18:17:16 -0000


This is Great Melton, in Henstead Hundred. This is (sigh) yet more over-use
of archaic phrases by our Victorian predecessors - Magna for 'Great' and
Parva for 'Little' appear in many East Anglian place names, but of course
shouldn't, because the locals didn't speak Latin after the 5th century, if
ever! Names were often Latinised in legal records, and sometimes these forms
were adopted as the 'official' name (sometimes not - King's Lynn won out
over 'Lynn Regis') but this did not reflect common usage.
Cheers
David Booty
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce R. Moorhouse <>
To: <>
Date: 30 November 1998 20:21
Subject: Melton Magna Henstead

>Can someone advise me as to where Melton Magna Henstead is, or was, and
what
>parish if would or would have been in?
>
>Thank you
>
>Bruce Moorhouse
>
>
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