Curbridge

Curbridge, Curdridge
settlement
parish:
county:
coords:
Curdridge
Hampshire
SU5211
refce: HANTSLOC.t
old map: 25inch County Series map -- Hants LXVI.15
Curbridge
otherwise: Kernebrugge; Curbrugge; Kerebrigge, 1236; Cornebrigge, 1272; Kernebregge, 1286
refce: Coates 1989
CURBRIDGE
refce: Coates 1989
Old English 'quern bridge'. It can hardly be 'bridge by a quern', as Gover suggests. The association of the two words is very difficult. Old English 'cweorn' appears to exist as a simplex name in 'Quorn' (Leicestershire), but this is actually a reduction of hypothetical Old English 'Cweorndun'='hill where quernstones were got'. The forms of our name suggest 'bridge of quernstones', for the first element seems to show traces of the genitive plural ending '-a'. Whether it is credible that a bridge over the widening river Hamble could be made of stones suitable for or recycled from handmills is a question I prefer to leave open.
old map
 Kirbridge
Shown on an old map by Harrison 1788
- settlement, hamlet - Waltham Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1780s
refce: Harrison 1788
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old map
 Kirbridg
Shown on an old map by Morden 1695
- settlement, hamlet - Waltham Hundred - Hampshire
Period - 1690s-1720s
refce: Morden 1695
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old map
 Kirbridg
Shown on an old map by Blaeu 1645
- settlement, hamlet - Waltham Hundred - Hantshire
refce: Blaeu 1645
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old map
 Kirbridg
Shown on an old map by Speed 1611
- settlement, hamlet - Waltham Hundred - Hantshire
refce: Speed 1611
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old map
 Kirbridg
Shown on an old map by Norden 1607
- house - Waltham Hundred - Hamshire
Period - 1590s-1600s
refce: Norden 1607
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   Old Hampshire Gazetteer - JandMN: 2001