The origin of the name Oesewalum has been the subject of discussion for many years, J. K. Wallenberg in his “The place-names of Kent” published in 1934, believed the name to derive from ōs or ēs; a deity/deities or semi-deity/deities and walu; a bank or ridge, giving a literal meaning of the ridge or bank […]
Month: November 2018
The settlement and church at Oesewalum: the origins of Nonington.
St. Mary’s Church appears to have been built in the original manorial settlement that became Nonington proper and it is likely that a chapel had been founded there during the ownership of Oesewalum by at least two abbesses of the Benedictine Abbeys of Minster on the Isle of Thanet and Southminster at Lyminge from the […]
The Ancient Manor of Oesewalum-much revised. Also: Where was Oesewalum?
The origin of the name Oesewalum has been the subject of discussion for many years, J. K. Wallenberg in his “The place-names of Kent” published in 1934, believed the name to derive from ōs or ēs; a deity/deities or semi-deity/deities and walu; a bank or ridge, giving a literal meaning of the ridge or bank […]