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Farnham

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Farnham, ‘homestead or enclosure where ferns grow’, OE fearn + hām or hamm: Farnham Dorset. Fernham 1086 (DB). Farnham Essex. Phernham 1086 (DB). Farnham N. Yorks. Farneham 1086 (DB). Farnham Suffolk. Farnham 1086 (DB). Farnham Surrey. Fernham c.686, Ferneham 1086 (DB). The second element of this name is probably OE hamm in the sense ‘river-meadow’. Farnham Royal Bucks. Ferneham 1086 (DB), Fernham Riall 1477. Affix (from OFrench roial) because it was held by the grand serjeanty of supporting the king's right arm at his coronation.

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Farnham

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Farnham , town (1991 pop. 35,492), Surrey, SE England, on the Wey River. It is a market town but is no longer the important grain and wool center it was in the 17th and early 18th cent. Farnham also has engineering and timber industries. A castle, the residence of the bishops of Winchester from 1160 to 1926, houses the Overseas Service College. The castle was built in the late 17th cent. on the site of a Norman castle that was destroyed in 1648. Aldershot, site of a military camp, is nearby. William Cobbett , the reformer, was born in Farnham.

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