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The Sussex Ashburn-hams, described in the earlier Burke's as "a family of stupendous antiquity," dating back well before the Norman Conquest, were cut off in the new Burke's without a single pre-Norman ancestor.

From Time Magazine Archive

This cross is interesting as evidence of the existence on the same site of a pre-Norman church.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See by Bygate, Joseph E.

Graveley is perhaps Saxon for “the Reeve’s land,” and Norden thinks the place took its name from a Reeve of the county in pre-Norman times.

From Hertfordshire by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)

These examples show that the pre-Norman names are by no means unrepresented in the twentieth century, but, in this matter, one must proceed with caution.

From The Romance of Names by Weekley, Ernest

Hereward the Wake, the English hero, also held in pre-Norman days many fat manors.

From English Villages by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)