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Location map Fairholme, Swine, East Yorkshire, England
Swine Priory near Kingston upon Hull had five granges which provided food to the nuns and monks. One of the granges was called several variations of our surname including Fayrholm, Feyrholme, Farom, Fairholm and Fareholme. According to the records for the adjoining Meaux Abbey for 1210 - 1220, Fayrholme was formerly called Scithelholme. An Anglo-Saxon dictionary we have found says that scitel-finger meant fore-finger. In relation to this land, scitiel may be being used to refer to an area of higher land pointing into marshland. OS Map 1880. Image produced from the www.old-maps.co.uk service with permission of Landmark Information Group Ltd. and Ordnance Survey
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