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57-450: Onomasticians say that the surname's origin, in being drawn from the name of a manor, is topographical in nature, and identical with the place name's origins. As such, it is derived from an Old English compound name composed of earn meaning eagle combined with leah meaning wood . The name's meaning is interpreted as signifying a place to which eagles resort. The earliest forms noted are Earneleach , Earnaleagh , Earnelegh found in

114-514: A bend cotised sable, two (another, three) eagles displayed with two necks or. 2. Earnley (co. Kent). Argent, a bend sable cotised between three eagles displayed gules. 3. Earnley (co. Sussex). Argent, on a bend sable, three eagles displayed or. Crest: A savage's head affrontée, couped at the shoulders, wreathed about the temples, issuing therefrom a plume of three ostrich feathers all proper. (From Burke's General Armory , 1884, p. 328, col. 2) 4. Erneley (place unspecified). Argent, on

171-655: A bend sable, 3 eagles displayed with 2 heads or . W. (as per 7 above) Ernley (John Ernley). Sheriff of Wilts... Add: Ernley (New Sarum co. Wilts., Baronetcy 1660). Same arms. Sir John Ernley. Chief Justice of Common Pleas. 1509 (recte, 1519, see Dictionary of National Biography ). Dug. O.J. (an abbreviation denoting William Dugdale's work, Origines Juridiciales , London, 1671). While coats of arms are often accompanied by mottoes, heraldists and other interested parties will also to note that, apparently, no motto accompanies any of these coats-of-arms. As an armorial family whose original status derives from ancient landed property,

228-421: A bend sable, three eagles displayed of the field. 5. Ernelle (co. Kent). Argent, on a bend cotised sable, three eagles displayed or. Crest: A chevalier on horseback wielding a scimitar, all proper. 6. Ernelle (place unspecified). Argent, a bend sable. 7. Ernle (Ernle [i.e. Earnley ], co. Sussex, and Whetham , co. Wilts.; descended from RICHARD ERNLE, of Ernle (that is, Earnley, Sussex), temp. Hen. III,

285-431: A bend sable, three eagles displayed or. 10. Ernley (quartered by TIDERLEIGH, of Tiderleigh, co. Devon (modern, Tytherleigh ). Robert TIDERLEIGH, of that place, temp. Henry VIII , m. ELIZABETH, dau. and co-heir of ANTHONY ERNLEY. Visitation of Somerset, 1620. Same Arms. (From General Armory Two , 1974, p. 57, col. 2) (as per 4 above) Erneley. Insert (Cos. Wilts. And Sussex). V.* W. (which abbreviations refer to

342-598: A century after the Norman conquest of England in 1066. The designation de Ernle occurs very early in the history of the adoption of hereditary surnames in England , a phenomenon which began along the south-eastern coast of England among the feudal manorial lords (of the greater and lesser nobility) whose members were mostly drawn from the descendants of the Norman invaders and their allies. The ancient coat of arms or heraldic shield of

399-486: A document dated 780 during the reign of Oslac , duke of the South Saxons. A later form, Earneleia , derives from a charter of England's King Aethelstan dated 930. Other English place names deriving from the same two words are thought to include Earley , Berkshire and Areley Kings (otherwise Areley-on-Severn), formerly called Ernley, Worcestershire. The latter place is connected with Layamon , poet and historian, one of

456-511: A gentleman. By the time this decline began to be observed among the junior-most cadet branches of the family, both the senior male line of the family and their surviving next principal male cadet branch in Wiltshire (see Ernle of Brembridge ) had died out (in the late 18th century – in fact, within a year of one another). It is not known if anyone is now entitled to claim a male-line descent from this ancient noble family, and thereby lay claim to use

513-661: A house that he had built. Nash's fruit growers produced grapes under huge glass cloches that could be rolled into place on a rail track. Lancing railway station opened with what is now known as the West Coastway Line in 1849. Between 1908 and 1912 the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway developed its railway wagon and carriage works in the area that is now the Lancing Business Park, closed in 1965 as part of British Rail's Beeching Plan of 1963 . The land on which

570-500: A number of different football pitches found within Lancing and Sompting. The Sussex County Football Association is based at Culver Road in the village and they share ownership of the newly built 3G pitch at Culver Road with Lancing F.C.. Two clubs play, Lancing Lads Official and Lancing Manor Cricket Club who play at the ground near the junction of the A27 and Manor Road. The writer Ted Walker

627-413: A quarter of a knight's fee less one virgate at Earnley, Sussex granted about a generation earlier, that is, circa 1166, by her father William de Lancinges and his wife Maud to his uncle, Lucas de Ernle . This name simply means Luke of Earnley . This man, whom historians call Luke de Ernle , is the first known member of the family, and is the probable progenitor of all subsequent Ernle s, though it

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684-470: Is a shingle beach with good stretches of clean sand at low water. Part of the coast road does not directly adjoin the sea but instead the long and narrow Widewater, a rare brackish lagoon , and the only known location of the probably extinct Ivell's sea anemone . Immediately north of the developed area is Lancing Ring, a Nature Reserve in the South Downs National Park . To the north of that

741-686: Is farmed agricultural downland connected to Lancing College Farm. On its eastern side is Shoreham Airport , the world's oldest continually operated airport, which was an RAF base in World War II . The village's boundary with Sompting to the west has historically been along Boundstone Lane, named after the boundstone or boundary stone that marked the boundary. The stone is now kept at Boundstone Nursery School, Upper Boundstone Lane, having previously been kept at Boundstone Community College , which has now been closed and transformed into The Sir Robert Woodard Academy . Much of Lancing's northern boundary with

798-454: Is not known whether he was actually the first person to be known by this designation. Since he is denominated as de Ernle in this document, it is quite likely that he or his family was already known and distinguished from others by the use of that sobriquet or surname. Since the grant of lands was given to him by a family member, it appears logical to assume that his own connexion to the place, like theirs, dated to an earlier period. As for

855-497: Is on Freshbrook Road and The Globe Primary (formerly The Willows First School and Oakfield Middle School) is on Irene Avenue. These two schools were formed in 2008-9 when each of the previous middle schools joined with the nearest of the first schools in Lancing. North Lancing Primary School has always been a first and middle school. Lancing was visited by Oscar Wilde in the 1890s when he stayed at nearby Worthing . The working title for his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest

912-448: Is possible, however, that some sank so far from their gentle origins and the former lifestyles of their ancestors that all memory of their family's former rank, privileges, precedence, and armigerous status was lost. On the other hand, while no one could deny their abiding gentle status, they might be subject to popular derision if they asserted it without the means of living up to it by the 'port (i.e. deportment), manner, or reputation' of

969-407: Is the proper name of the object in question, the object of onomastic study. Scholars studying onomastics are called onomasticians . Onomastics has applications in data mining , with applications such as named-entity recognition , or recognition of the origin of names. It is a popular approach in historical research, where it can be used to identify ethnic minorities within populations and for

1026-630: The Adur district of West Sussex , England, on the western edge of the Adur Valley. It occupies part of the narrow central section of the Sussex coastal plain between smaller Sompting to the west, larger Shoreham-by-Sea to the east, and the parish of Coombes to the north. Excluding definitive suburbs it may have the largest undivided village cluster in Britain . However, its economy is commonly analysed as integral to

1083-482: The Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation. Its settled area beneath the South Downs National Park covers 3.65 square miles (9.5 square kilometres; 2,340 acres), the majority of its land. The Lancing area is characterised by mid-rise coastal urban homes, farmland, and wildlife reserves of the northern chalk downs and River Adur estuary. There are non-religious structures that date back to

1140-602: The National League South . Teams in the village cover all ages of adult and junior games: Lancing F.C. is based at the Culver Road 3G Ground, owned by Sussex County FA, and also Monks Recreation Ground. Lancing F.C. is the village's main club, formed in 1941, and is currently playing in the Isthmian League South East Division. Lancing United FC are the second largest adult male football club in

1197-560: The de Lancinges family itself, to whom Luke de Ernle was kin: they were supporters of the Arundel earls of Sussex who were descended from Roger de Montgomerie, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury , a major feudal baron who was granted large tracts of Sussex known as the Rape of Arundel in 1067 or 1068 from his kinsman, William I of England . It is not now known whether Luke de Ernle was of Norman , Saxon , or other, origin, these events having occurred

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1254-413: The hundred of La Manwode or Manwood , now found under the form Manhood , which in turn took its name from a locality in the parish of Earnley. The parish and hundred lie in the original pre-Conquest Saxon division of Sussex known as the Rape of Chichester. The boundaries of the manor of Earnley and the parish of the same name are not strictly coterminous, as the manor itself was not contained within

1311-579: The undifferenced coat-of-arms borne by the head of the Ernle family since time immemorial . The undifferenced arms are, however, quartered in the armorial bearings of the extant Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax family. This family derived from Luke de Ernle who was confirmed in his de Lancinges nephew's earlier grant (1166) to him of almost a quarter of a knight's fee by his de Lancinges great-niece in about 1190. Historians' attempts to trace this family over later centuries have met with only partial success, though

1368-636: The 1340s probably pertain to one or other of the two men called John de Ernele mentioned in 1337. According to the Sussex Archaeological Collections (1865, p. 248): John de Ernele (Ernley), one of the Coroners for Sussex in 1343, being found inefficient, another was ordered to be elected by the County in his place. (Rot. Cl. 17th Edward III.) A fine dated 1347 names John de Ernele of La Manwode . The place referred to here can be either

1425-529: The Continent, where one observes that the legal penalty for dérogeance resulted in the legal loss of nobiliary status due to the failure of someone of gentle or noble blood to live as a noble, this, however, led to no automatic legal denial of their ancient gentility of blood. So, even if living in reduced circumstances, and performing manual labour, such English gentlefolk did not suffer from any deprivation, withdrawal, or removal of their hereditary gentle status. It

1482-404: The Ernle family belonged to the class known as the gentry . As gentlemen with a coat-of-arms , or armigers , the heads of the family were hereditary esquires, and the younger sons and their cadets all gentlemen, and their daughters all gentlewomen. The family were thus all of gentle birth , and were classed as members of what has been termed the minor or lesser nobility , corresponding to what

1539-410: The Ernle family was not used pursuant to specific rights described in an extant grant of arms from one of the royal officers of arms, but appears to have been borne by the head of the family through prescriptive right having been adopted in time immemorial . The contents of the shield reflect a knowledge of the name's original meaning, resort of eagles , that is, a place where eagles congregate. As such,

1596-589: The Germans term, Uradel , which the French call noblesse de race , or ancient nobility. Though they never achieved the ranks of the greater nobility which, in England, was confined to members of the peerage , at least one branch of the family did accede to the ranks of hereditary knighthood, created by King James I of England , and known as the baronetage . In the 20th century, a female-line descendant, Rowland Prothero ,

1653-556: The Street) down to the ford. Much of the land which is residential was formerly taken up by family-run market gardening businesses growing fruit or flowers for the Brighton Market or Covent Garden in London. The largest businesses were Sparks who grew fruit such as tomatoes and Young's which produced carnations. Chrysanthemums were grown by Frank Lisher on land south of The Finches, in

1710-483: The alliteration; and the scribe, who attempted by marks of punctuation to show which half-lines belonged together, seems in consequence to have sometimes lost his way. An preost wes on leoden Laȝamon wes ihoten. He wes leouenaðes sone, liðe him beo drihten. He wonede at ernleȝe , at æðelen are chirechen. vppen seuarne staÞe, sel Þar him Þuhte. on fest Radestone Þer he bock radde. Hit com him on mode, & on his mern Þonke. [translation into Modern English] A priest

1767-500: The ancestor of Sir John ERNLE , Knt., of Ernle, Chief Justice, K.B., whose descendant*, Sir John Ernle , Knt., of Whetham, co. Wilts., was Chancellor of the Exchequer and a Privy Councillor, temp. Charles II and James II. The family name, EARNLEY, or ERNLE, is derived from a village in Sussex, so called from the Saxon words Earn and Lege, the place or habitation of eagles, and, in allusion,

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1824-601: The coat could be said to fall into the category of canting arms . The blazon is Argent, on a bend sable, three eagles displayed or which means that on a heater shield coloured silver appears a wide sash-like strip of black running diagonally from the top left toward the bottom right of the escutcheon on which is placed a row of three golden eagles with their wings open and bodies showing. According to Burke's General Armory (1884) and Burke's General Armory Two (1974), this basic coat of arms, sometimes varying in one detail or another, accompanied by various crests or none,

1881-440: The confusion of centuries of genealogists over the two Ernle brothers both, according to a common mediaeval usage unfamiliar to many modern researchers, named John. The elder of these brothers was John Ernle, Esq., of Fosbury and Bishop's Cannings, Wilts., esquire. He was the progenitor of the Wiltshire line, and thus the 17th-century chancellor's direct ancestor, while the younger of them, known to history chiefly as Sir John Ernley,

1938-441: The continuity of the descent of the manor of Earnley among people bearing that early surname is thought to indicate that successive manorial lords all belonged to the same family. The evidence recited in the published account of the manor of Earnley cites a later lord of the manor living around 1260 whose name was also Luke de Ernle (in this instance, the documentary spelling is de Ernele , and that account favours this spelling of

1995-470: The eagles are borne in the arms). Argent, on a bend sable, three eagles displayed or. Crest -- An eagle displayed vert. . Another crest -- A man's head sidefaced, couped at the shoulders proper, on the head a long cap, barry of six or and sable, at the end two strings and tasselled gold. * This filiation conflicts with what appears in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , which points out

2052-711: The earliest writers in the English tongue ( The Beginnings of English Literature , C.M. Lewis, 1900, p. 66): About the year 1205 an English 'Brut' was written. This was the work of Layamon, a parish priest of Ernley in Worcestershire. The opening lines give us the best information we have about him. Their metre should be noted. It is a relic of the Old English verse, each half-line (or each line, as here printed) containing two principal accents, and being more or less closely connected with its fellow. The poet, however, often omitted

2109-534: The early 16th century. The population in 2002 was approximately 19,000 in 2002. In the 2011 census the population for Lancing and Coombes was recorded as 18,810. The village was a popular seaside resort in the mid-19th century. Summer tourist hallmarks are the traditional guesthouses on the A259 coast road, as well as a caravan/campsite in Old Salts Farm Road, and beach chair hire and ice cream businesses. There

2166-509: The following items: V.= Glover's Ordinary . Cotton MS. Tiberius D. 10; Harleian MSS 1392 and 1459, with the asterisk referring to the note that "Coats incorrectly given in the printed Glover[']s Ordinary which may have been copied into books of reference and probably used as actual coats." W.= Withie's additions to Glover's Ordinary , in Harleian MS 1459) (as per 5 above) Ernelle (Co. Kent). Add: V.W. 11. Ernell (place unspecified). Argent, on

2223-422: The local area and they play their matches at Croshaw Recreation Ground, Boundstone Lane. Their home pavilion was a project led by two local hero’s Glenn Souter and Joby Pannell it is currently sponsored by Middleton Estates. Lancing F.C., Lancing United Colts F.C. and Lancing Rangers F.C. are the three local youth football clubs supporting football for all male and females aged from U6 - 18, playing their matches at

2280-492: The name of the hundred in which the parish of Earnley was situate, or an actual locality within the parish of Earnley which happens to have given its name to the hundred, probably because it was the usual meeting-place for the whole hundred when it gathered to conduct business. Onomastics Onomastics (or onomatology in older texts) is the study of proper names , including their etymology , history, and use. An alethonym ('true name') or an orthonym ('real name')

2337-401: The name). Next, John de Ernle son of Luke held the manor in 1284. A man who may be this John, or his younger son, John, received a grant of free warren at Earnley in 1318. In 1337, mention is made of John and Richard de Ernele , and of Joan daughter of John de Ernele in connexion with the recovery of the nearby manor of Almodington by Robert de Almodington . The next two citations from

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2394-462: The parish borders, but included part of the neighbouring parish of West Wittering . Also, the parish of Earnley was enlarged in 1524, absorbing the former parish of Almodington , now a hamlet of Earnley parish. The resulting parish, held by a rector, is formally referred to as Earnley with Almodington . During the Civil War and Interregnum , the parish of Earnley was united with East Wittering for

2451-531: The people of Wlanc or people of Hlanc . Like many places throughout this part of Sussex, Lancing has an -ing ending, meaning people of . Wlanc seems to mean proud or imperious, while Hlanc seems to mean lank or lean. The suggestion that Lancing takes its name from the Wlencing or Wlenca, the son of the South Saxon king Ælle , has been discounted. Shoreham Tollbridge is a Grade II* listed building which

2508-450: The purpose of prosopography . Onomastics originates from the Greek onomastikós ( ὀνομαστικός , 'of or belonging to naming'), itself derived from ónoma ( ὄνομα , 'name'). This onomastics -related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Lancing, West Sussex Lancing is a large coastal village and civil parish in

2565-614: The purposes of officially countenanced Presbyterian worship and oversight during the official suppression of Anglicanism . At the Restoration , which saw not just the return of the monarchy , but also of the Anglican Settlement , the parishes reverted to their separate status as in pre-Commonwealth times. Historians trace the origins of this Sussex landed family to the latter part of the twelfth century. About 1190, Bertha de Lancinges confirmed an earlier charter for lands amounting to

2622-687: The village of Coombes runs along the Ladywell Stream, a tributary of the River Adur which runs from the South Downs near to Lancing College . The source of the Ladywell Stream, the Ladywell Spring, is believed to be an ancient holy well or sacred stream with pre-Christian significance. In 1828, remains of what may be an Iron Age shrine and to its west a later Romano-British temple were found just west of Lancing Ring. The Romano-British temple

2679-543: The works were sited was predominantly turned over to this park, which is also known as the Churchill Industrial Estate. Few buildings pre-dating 1820 are here, however one example is a central former farmhouse, which is now a home named Monks Farm Presbytery on North Road. Following World War II market gardening gave way to housing as diets became more exotic and more difficult to ripen fruits such as grapes began to be imported in greater numbers; this growth

2736-584: The world with the largest stained-glass rose window in England (completed in 1977). The local senior school, The Sir Robert Woodard Academy , formerly Boundstone Community College , just inside the contiguous village of Sompting , is a mixed comprehensive of around 1,100 students from ages 11–18. In the north-east of the parish on the Downs lies Lancing College , an independent school and major landmark. There are also three primary schools. Seaside Primary (formerly Freshbrook First School and Thornberry Middle School)

2793-573: Was Lady Lancing . Wilde's friend and lover, the poet Lord Alfred Douglas lived in nearby Brighton and died while staying at Monk's Farmhouse mentioned above. Lancing was also visited by another poet, Algernon Charles Swinburne , who stayed at The Terrace in the 1880s. Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion train at Mash Barn Lane, Lancing. Some of Albion's fixtures in the Premier League Under 21 competition are played here. Nearby are situated semi-professional Worthing who play in

2850-453: Was among the people who was called Layamon. He was Levenath's son. Gracious to him be the Lord. He dwelt at Ernly, at a noble church upon Severn's bank. Well there to him it seemed, fast by Radestone. There he read books. The parish of Earnley lies on the southern coast of England in the county of Sussex, 4 miles (6.4 km) south-west of Chichester , the local cathedral city. It formed part of

2907-635: Was born in Lancing in 1934 and grew up at 186, Brighton Road, by the Widewater. His autobiographical work, The High Path takes its name from the footpath that ran between Brighton road and the Widewater, and which was formerly a public right of way. As a child, heavyweight boxer Sir Henry Cooper was evacuated from London to Lancing, along with identical twin brother George. Many well-known figures attended Lancing College , including novelists Tom Sharpe and Evelyn Waugh , lyricist Tim Rice , singer Peter Pears and comedian Adam Buxton. Lancing, (along with

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2964-412: Was granted an hereditary peerage as Lord Ernle , though that title only existed from 1919 to 1937, due to the early death, in action, during World War I, of his only son, who would have been heir to the peerage, had he outlived the hostilities. As can be seen in the case of the cadet lines of its male descendants, junior members of the family sometimes ceased to live as gentry. In England, as opposed to

3021-673: Was located within an oval temenos and seems to have been built in the 1st century AD. A track has existed since Celtic British times which ran from Chanctonbury Ring via Cissbury Ring to Lancing Ring and from then on to a probable ford across the River Adur by the modern Sussex Pad, close to the Old Tollbridge at Old Shoreham . Among this lowest lying farmland to the east of the village proper are remains of medieval salt workings. The Roman road from Noviomagus Reginorum ( Chichester ) to Novus Portus (probably Portslade near Brighton ) also ran through modern North Lancing (along

3078-442: Was most rapid between 1945 and 1970, with more muted housing growth following on in most years. The village has a large business park, occupied for instance by Equiniti , exclusive registrar for registering share transfers for some of the country's largest banks and public limited companies. In economics and transport, the suburb forms part of the linear and diverse Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation . Lancing probably means

3135-628: Was the Lord Chief Justice. This latter personage was, moreover, not as the post-nominal letters K.B. denote, a Knight of the original Order of the Bath , but rather a simple knight, formerly called a banneret , or knight of the field, or what would now be termed a Knight Bachelor , or, in casual usage, a carpet knight . 8. Ernle (Etchilhampton, co. Wilts., baronet, extinct 1787; a branch of ERNLE, of Ernle). Same Arms, &c. 9. Ernley (JOHN ERNLEY, Sheriff of Wilts., temp. Henry VII ). Argent, on

3192-517: Was the last toll bridge in use in Sussex. The bridge was in use for motorised traffic until the opening of the A27 flyover over the Adur in 1970. The bridge is in the east of the parish, crossing the Adur into Shoreham. Shoreham Airport , the oldest licensed airfield in the UK, opened in 1911, is in the parish. Lancing College, see below, has a predominantly 19th Century chapel that is the largest school chapel in

3249-535: Was used over the centuries by the branches of the family, who, by the similarity of their descriptions, claim descent from a shared origin in the same Sussex locality, Earnley , from which they derive their surname. These armigerous branches of the family, whose current fate is not always known, with their various differences or departures from the original paternal coat, taken as denoting cadency, were in alphabetical order: (From Burke's General Armory , 1884, p. 312, col. 2) 1. Earnley (co. Cornwall). Argent, on

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