Alder Carr Farm - Suffolk Farm Shop - Reviews
Reviewed: 4 Stars! Alder Carr Farm is a lovely farm in suffolk with a wide range of products in their shop and many things to do around the farm. This video shows some of the excellent reviews that have been offered by their happy customers.
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Alder Carr Farm
Creeting St. Mary
Ipswich
Suffolk
IP6 8LX
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Marsden flooding
high rainfall = wetness lol
Clegg
Broadbent
Moorhouse
Walker
Sykes
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Herbert
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Green
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Beaumont
Hirst
Barracloughb
Campinot
Gill
Carter
Parkin
Kershaw
Information from English Place Names 1961 by Kenneth Cameron: Other information from History of the Colne Valley by D F E Sykes
OE = Old English; OD = Old Danish; ON = Old Norse
badger = pedlar, often of food
balmforth = foaming or rapid stream
bank = bank or ridge (OD)
bent = a grassy or reddy area
blake = pale in colour
booth = temporary shelter (OD)
carr, or car = land recovered by draining a boggy area (ON)
clough = a valley with steep sides, forming the bed of a stream (OE)
Colne = D F E Sykes equates 'Colne' to the Celtic 'Glyn', meaning a narrow valley
delph = a dug pit or trench
den, or dene = valley, usually wooded (OE)
Eastergate = corruption of Esther. Esther Schofield owned the nearby pub of, the Packhorse Inn
edge = edge or ridge
firth = wood (OE)
fold = enclosed area for animals
gate = street or way (ON)
Golcar = Sykes conjectures that this is a Celtic word for Beacon fire. He also suggests it means the rock of Saint Guthlac (a missionary from the mother church at Dewsbury). This personal name derivation is preferred by Cameron.
greave - grave, or pit
haigh, haugh = hill, usually steep (in OE also a narrow secluded valley)
hey, hay = enclosure (OE)
holme = a piece of flat, low-lying ground near a river, liable to flood (ON)
holt = wood (OE)
ings = Viking word for a marsh or meadow (inga)
intake = land taken in to use from the wilderness
kirk = church
lea, or lee, or ley, or lay = pasture, or untilled land, or meadow (OE)
lin = flax (ON)
lockwood = enclosed woodland
lund = grove of trees
Marsden = Marchdene, boundary valley
moss = moor
owler = alder tree (OE)
royd = Clearing, or field (OE)
scale = summer dwelling
Scapegoat Hill = corruption of Slip-cote, which was a form of cream cheese
scar = rocky outcrop or cliff
Slaith = sloe, blackthorn
syke = a small stream, often dry in summer
thorp = daughter settlement, or farm (OD)
throstle = thrush
thwaite = forest clearing, or meadow in a low situation (ON)
Wilherlee = wild boar lea
worth = enclosure (OE)