Editing Crow's Reach

=Bureaucratic details=
* Name:  Branch (NW Iowa Contact Group Name)<br>
* Action: New<br>
* Already Registered Name?
* Authenticity desired?
* Allowed Changes:  All, Intermediate and Minor, Minor only, No changes
* If changes needed: Language/Culture, Meaning, Sound, Spelling (details)
* Allow Holding Name?
* Previous submission history, if any
* Kingdom?

=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!!!!
* Villa Frumentaria - see Barton, above.  What an awesome place name!!!
* Winghat - wind gate or pass where wind blows through.

==Other ideas==
===Giant===
* Giant is a late period English surname
* Ent is Old English for giant per the Middle English Dictionary - https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED14203/track?counter=2&search_id=9800794

===Oak===
* Oak in Middle English Dictionary - https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED30485/track?counter=1&search_id=9800794
** (1277) EPNSoc.17 (Not.)82 : Hoddeshock.  Hoddes Oak.  Hodde has lots of places.
** Oakmere [sic] - oak lake in Ekwall

===Borders, Land===
*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;
** A Northorp is mentioned 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
* Middle English words with "land" somewhere in their definition - https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_field=notes_and_def&q=land

===Lake===
* Mere (Middle English) - https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED27421/track?counter=10&search_id=9800794
** (1313) EPNSoc.19 (Cmb.)83 : Foulmere.
** (1212-1315) EPNSoc.19 (Cmb.)339 : Gosemere.

* Lai (Middle English) - https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED24575/track?counter=1&search_id=9800794

===Prairie aka meadow:===
*Lea, Lei, etc. - https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary/MED25040/track?counter=1&search_id=9803728
** Akley, Okley [sic] - Aka's meadow/opening (after the personal name, so subst. some version of Crow as a personal name?)
* Thormedoholmdale - another word for 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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