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What does the name 'Imber' mean?
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04 July 2011
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Early recorded names are 'Himmedon' (1170), and 'Immedon' (1281). The first part is an Old English personal name, Imma, and the whole means 'Imma's pool and hill'
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Bibliography
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The Place-names of Wiltshire by J.E.B. Gover and others, 1939