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Archaic England, an essay in deciphering prehistory from megalithic monuments, earthworks, customs, coins, placenames, and faeric superstitions (1919)

Bayley, Harold · London : Chapman & Hall ltd. · leaf 439

An illustration from Archaic England, an essay in deciphering prehistory from megalithic monuments, earthworks, customs, coins, placenames, and faeric superstitions, 1919, leaf 439
closely adjacent to what isnow Coventry Street and Cranbrook Street. Grene isGreek for brook,^ the Hippocrene or the horse brook was 1 Cf. Holy Wells. 2 The numerous British Cranbrooks and Cranbournes are assumed tohave been the haunts of cranes. 428 ARCHAIC ENaLAKn [chap. the fountain struck by… … Fig. 25G.—From Tlie Ijcgcndary Lore of tlie Holy Wclla of England(Hope, R. C). but v^as from time immemorial a grove or garden of GoodCoven. The Maiden Lane here situated probably derivedits title from a sign or tablet of the Maiden similar to theCoventina pictures, and it is not improbable that…

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