Ampney Crucis, Ampney St Mary, Ampney St Peter & Down Ampney
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Ampney Crucis, Ampney St Mary, Ampney St Peter & Down Ampney
Gloucestershire Omenie (1086) (DB), Ameneye Sancte Crucis (1287), Ammeneye Beate Marie (1291), Amenel Sancti Petri (c.1275), Dunamenell (1205). Possibly named from Ampney Brook, ‘stream of a man called *Amma’, OE pers. name (genitive -n) + ēa. Alternatively the second element may be OE ēg ‘island, area of raised ground in marsh’. Distinguishing affixes from the dedication of the churches to the Holy Rood (Latin crucis ‘of the cross’), St Mary and St Peter, and from OE dūne ‘lower downstream’.
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