An Historical Account of Cumner With Some Particulars of the Traditions Respec
An Historical Account of Cumner With Some Particulars of the Traditions Respec
Hugh Usher Tighe
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Denton Court was first abbreviated to Dencourt, and afterwards changed to UUEEN ELIZABETH. DeanCourt, or Dane Court. Some writers* have asserted that the latter is the proper name, it being derived from the Dunes having besieged Wytham Castle from that place, f This is refuted by that correct and diligent antiquary Hearne, in his Glossary to Peter Langtoft, page 594. He there says, that " Denton Court, in the Cf parish of Cumnor, near Abbington in tr Berks, was not so denominated from the " Dan...es, as several have suggested, but " from its being situated in a valley. In old " time there were at that place several little * This is A. Wood's opinion. See Lib. Nigr. Vol. Ii. t Some are of opinion that the Danes having taken this village of Seckworth, from thence besieged Wigtham Castle on the hill. Nor do I see any improbability in it. But whereas they add, that Denton Court, not far from Seckworth, was called so from the Danes, it is plainly a mistake, as may be seen from what I have observed in my Glossary to Peter Langtoft, p.
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