A comyn mistake to make
In your editorial comment on the dog control issue, you refer to Newbold Comyn and to running on the comyn (lower case). I wonder if this follows the widespread misconception that “Comyn” is an archaic form of “common”.
In fact, Newbold Comyn is the name of the mediaeval village evidence of whose open fields can still be seen from the ridges and furrows on some of the golf course caused by centuries of ploughing the field strips.
The village appears in Domesday Book as Niwebold, with a total of five hides (say 500 acres) of land split between two lordships. “Newbold” means “new building”. The “Com” in Comyn will most likely mean valley and the “yn” could be a rendering of “ing” meaning homestead. If so, Comyn means “the homestead in the valley”. - Bob Crowther, Clarendon Street, Leamington