Editing Bermondsey (section)

===Toponymy===
Bermondsey may be understood to mean ''Beornmund''{{'}}s island; but, while ''Beornmund'' represents an [[Old English language|Old English]] personal name, identifying an individual once associated with the place, the element "-ey" represents Old English ''eg'', for "island", "piece of firm land in a fen", or simply a "place by a stream or river". Thus Bermondsey need not have been an island as such in the Anglo-Saxon period, and is as likely to have been a higher, drier spot in an otherwise marshy area.<ref>Ekwall, E., ''The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names'', 4th edn., Oxford University Press, 1960, pp. 39, 161 (for "eg").</ref> Though Bermondsey's earliest written appearance is in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086, it also appears in a source which, though surviving only in a copy written at [[Peterborough Cathedral|Peterborough Abbey]] in the 12th century, claiming "ancient rights" unproven purporting to be a transcription of a letter of [[Pope Constantine]] (708–715), in which he grants privileges to a monastery at ''Vermundesei'', then in the hands of the abbot of [[Medeshamstede]], as Peterborough was known at the time.<ref>See e.g. Stenton, F.M., 'Medeshamstede and its Colonies', in Stenton, D.M. (ed.), ''Preparatory to Anglo-Saxon England Being the Collected Papers of Frank Merry Stenton'', Oxford University Press, 1970, and Blair, J., 'Frithuwold's kingdom and the origins of Surrey', in Bassett, S. (ed.), ''The Origins of Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms'', Leicester University Press, 1989.</ref>