What does the road name 'Meend' mean in English?

I live in a road called 'Kells Meend' and for years I've been trying to find out what the word 'Meend' means.

Here's the road name on Google maps.

And, on Streetmap (if you scroll around)you can see other examples:

• Coleford Meend
• Bream's Meend

The area (The Forest of Dean) used to be known for coal mining and timber production so it might have something to do with that.

The only reference I can find is wikipedia but that refers to - 'In Hindustani music, meend refers to a glide from one note to another' - which, I suspect is not the meaning of the word in this context.

Anyone got any ideas ?

Solution 1:

Looking for Meend etymology I found

The distribution and origin of meends in the Forest of Dean

There have been several interpretations of the origin of meend. The most current and now widely accepted is that to be found in Smith’s “Place-Names of Gloucestershire” (1964).
[...] He considered that meend is derived from Old Welsh ‘minid’, meaning mountain’, and was rendered as munede during the medieval period, eventually occurring as meend through a variety of post-medieval forms such as myne and meene.
It has cognate forms along the Welsh Marches and in Wales as Mynydd.

It came to be used to define an area of open space, often associated with the royal forest.

...I venture to think that this view rests upon insufficient basis. First of all, such ridges as are in the Forest have always been called so: i.e. Serridge. (13th c. Seyrrudge); and, when the 13th c. Forest-Scribe referred to an exceptional hill, he frankly terms it "Mons." Not a Single instance of Mynydd has survived in that peculiarly conservative region; whereas there are over twenty Meands. Secondly, wherever this term occurs it carries the sense of open unfilled, or common, land, throughout the Bailiwicks; in fact, it is identical with the Meanelands of Co. Kent: lands held in common (A.S. gemǽne).

As mentioned in comments, we have gemeente and Mient's in Dutch - stemming from uncultivated land for common use - viz. Commons...