Survey of English Place-Names
A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.
Survey of English place-names
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Furze
Furze
Early-attested site in the Parish of West Buckland
Historical Forms
Fersa
1086
DB
atte Forse
1330
SR
Etymology
v.
fyrs
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Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
Taddiport
Whitsford
Bushton
Elwell
Gubbs
Yollacombe Plantation
Early-attested site
Indicombe
Leary Barton
Stoodleigh
Major Settlement
West Buckland