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It was named by its largest landowner Col.
The duke of Devonshire is the principal landowner.
It is not enough that it should be pumped on to the land at the expense of the landowner.
Woburn Abbey, belonging to the Russells since 1547, is the seat of the duke of Bedford, the greatest landowner in the county.
The landowner of the time may have moved them away to make a park or to enclose farmland.