| List of Names as written on the Plan |
Various modes of Spelling the same Names |
Authority for those modes of Spelling |
Situation | Descriptive Remarks, or other General Observations which may be considered of Interest |
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| FARNE ISLANDS | Farne Islands | Mr Geo. Tate, Alnwick | See Sheets | The Farne Islands are from one and a half to five | ||
| – " – | Mr Saml King, Agent, N.Sunderland | 12a C | miles eastward from the Northumberland Coast; | |||
| Farn Islands | Admiralty Chart 1857 | 12a D | the nearest point of land is Monkshouse, and | |||
| – " – | Admiralty North Sea Pilot 1858 | 17 A & | Bambrough Castle is two miles distant. | |||
| 17 B | Their number is from 15 to 30, according to the | |||||
| state of the tide, and others which appear only | ||||||
| one island at low water, form two or three when | ||||||
| the tide is high. There are two groups of these | ||||||
| islets, separated from each other by ‘Staples | ||||||
| Sound’, nearly a mile broad, and through which | ||||||
| ships of any burden may pass, though not with | ||||||
| -out danger, as the ‘Oxscars’ – rocks covered by the | ||||||
| sea – lie near to the passage The islet | ||||||
| Ó¾ Some ancient documents printed in ‘Raine’s History of North Durham’ show, that the | cluster, is often applied to the whole group; but | |||||
| old names of the various islands have, for the most part, continued in use to the present. | the ‘Farne’, sometimes called the ‘House island’, the | |||||
| Slightly modified, they appear in an early metrical life of St.Cuthbert; in a | largest and nearest to the land, is more generally | |||||
| Charter of the twelfth century, in a manuscript by a Monk of Durham; and | given to the whole, and each individual islet and | |||||
| in a document written about the year 1690 – Below, the names from these several sources | rock have their own distinctive names, given to them long | |||||
| are given, along with those now in use. | ago, from some real or imaginary quality or feature. Ó¾ | |||||
| Names now in use | St Cuthbert’s History | Twelfth Century | Manuscript | 1690 | ||
| Inner Farne | Farne | Farne | Farne | House Lands | ||
| West Wideopen | Wedum | Wedum | West Wedoms | Two Wideopens | ||
| East Wideopen | Reliqua Wedum | Altera Wedum | Est Wedoms | — | ||
| Staple | Stapheleland | Stapel eland | Stapleland | Stapleland | ||
| Brownsman | Forsheland | Fos eland | Fossland | Brownsman | ||
| South Wawmses | Binae Wawmes | Wahum | South Walms | Two Wawmses | ||
| North Wawmses | — — | Altera Wahum | North Walms | — | ||
| Big Harcar | Harrecarres | Harecarres | Hardcarres | Harcus | ||
| Little Harcar | — — | — | — | — | ||
| Big Scarcar | Scarfcarres | — | Scarphcarrs | Two Scarcars | ||
| Little Scarcar | — | — | – | – | ||
| Crumstone | Crumstan | — | Cromstane | Crumstone | ||
| Longstone | Langestand | Langstan | Langstane | Langstones | ||
| Megstone | Meggestand | — | Duae Megstanes | Meggstone | ||
| Noxes | Knoke | — | Knokys | Noxes | ||
| Nivestone | Kurnestand | — | Knyfestane | Knivestone | ||
| Clove Car) | Clovenstan | Cloven Carres | Clofyncarre | (Clove Car | ||
| Blue Caps) | — | — | — | (Blue Caps | ||
| Oxscar | — | — | Oxcarres | Ox Car | ||
| Swedman | — | — | Merecarres | Swedman | ||
| Outcarres. (Shoreston) | — | — | Uttcarres | — o.m.o. 22d August 1861 | ||
| Nameless Rock | — | — | — | Nameless Rock | ||
| Roddam and Green | — | — | — | — | ||
| Northern Hares | — | — | — | — | ||
| AMR | ||||||
Note: Signed in header by AM Roy (or AMcKay?)
Abbreviations are underlined like this RE and the expansion may be seen by hovering the cursor over the abbreviation.
| An entry outlined like this has a note which may be seen by hovering the cursor over it. |
Transcribed by SMH and CC
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