Crow's Reach

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Name Inspiration

  • Arakmarch - cow march
  • Giant's Reach - a Giant's Gate is a canton in the East (?)
  • Oaks
  • Lakes, eg. Loch Chrioch (boundary lake)
  • Hartford Mark
  • Drake's Mark - Currently registered as a Household name.
  • Auroch Mark
  • Aurochs Berg
  • Loch Chrioch
  • Fowl March
  • Fowl's Fen
  • Giants Mark
  • Fowls Reach
  • Norreach
  • Newt's Nest
  • Drake's Burg
  • Lochland Shire
  • Rolling Oaks
  • Crow's Crossing
  • Crow's Reach (referencing edge of the Kingdom and the middle of nowhere)
  • Crow's Lift/Loft (Referencing the Windmills)
  • Crow's Cliff


Ekwall - crow, north, oak, "reach"

  • Crawe = crow, see crannoch, croiden, cromer
  • CRANAGE - Croeneche DB; Craunach 1215, 1274; Craulach 1247, 1271; Cranach 1290; “crows’ stream”.
  • CRANOE - Craweho DB; Crawenho 1198; Craunhou 1209; “headland frequented by crows”.
  • CRASTER - Craucestr 1242; –cestre 1245; “old fort inhabited by crows”.
  • CRAWCROOK - Crawecroca 1130 Kraukruke 1242; “bend frequented by crows”.
  • CRAWLEY - Crauelai DB; Craule 1195; Crauuelæa DB; Craweleainga Mearc 909; Crawanlea 960; Crawelie DB; Craule 1316; Crauleia 1203; “crows’ wood”.
  • CRAWLEY - Crawelawe 1225, 1256; “crows’ hill”.
  • CRAWSHAW - Croweshagh 1324; “crows’ wood”.
  • CREACOMBE - Crawecome DB; Crueucumbe 1238; Creucumbe 1284; “crows’ valley”.
  • CROMER - Crowemere, Crowmere 1297; “crows’ mere or lake”.
  • CROWBOROUGH - Cranbergh 1292; Crowbergh 1390; “crow hill”, might also be “crow grove”.
  • CROWCOMBE - Crauuancumb 904; Crawancumb 938; Crawecumbe DB; “crow valley”.
  • CROWELL - Clawelle DB; Crauwelle 1231; “crow’s spring or stream”.
  • CROWHURST - Craueherst 1189; Crawe- Crowehurst 1303, 1315. “crow wood”.
  • CROWMARSH - Craumareis 1085; Cravmares DB; Croumerse 1195; Craumershe 1316; Cromershe 1316. “marsh frequented by crows”.
  • CROYDON - Craudon 1243; Croudon 1331; “hill frequented by crows”.
  • Northrup [sic] - northern village, also maybe?crossroads?, see below
  • Oakmere [sic] - oak lake in Ekwall
  • Oakworth [sic] - oak homestead
  • Oaklea - oak wood
  • Aconbury - old fort inhabited by squirrels - somebody PLEASE take this name!!!!
  • Winghat - wind gate or pass where wind blows through.

Other ideas

Giant

Oak

Borders

  • Rand = Old English for a border land, edge/margin/shore
  • Thorp, Throp = outlying farm, territory, also possibly (per Middle English Dictionary) ?a place where many ways meet, crossroads;
    • Northorp is in Ekwall
  • Marche - https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED26879/track?counter=1&search_id=9803728
    • (a) A region, province, district; a country; -- often pl.; also, land, territory; (b) in titles of one of the English kings of arms: south marche(s of engelond, south marche, the area south of the river Trent in England under the jurisdiction of one of the principal heralds of England; ~ king of armes, the King of Arms, or chief herald, of this region; (c) the range or territory of an animal.
    • also in surnames

Lake

Prairie aka meadow:

Windmill

  • (a1235) Chart.Luffield in North.RS 26 ()128,134 : Winmulnehul…Windmulnehul.
  • (c1262) Cart.Newnham in Bdf.HRS 43 ()179 : Wynmulnefeld. (Middle English Dictionary)
  • (1339) Cart.St.John in OHS 6985 : Netherwynmulle.

Combination

  • Documentation for the combination of the names
  • Needed if lingual mix, temporal incompatibility, double-given name, etc.

Conflicts

  • House of Northmark
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