Crockerton Hill
Early-attested site in the Parish of Cranborne
Historical Forms
- Crokkerneweye 1325 MinAcct
- Crockherne yate e17 CecilMap
Etymology
Crockerton Hill (SU 046167), probably to be associated with Crokkerneweye 1325MinAcct , Crockherne yate e17CecilMap , 'way to the pottery, gate at the pottery', from crocc and ærn , with weg and geat , cf. Crockern Stoke in Haselbury B. par. supra ; Crockerton may mean 'farm or hill at Crokkerne ', or 'farm or hill of the potters', v. tūn , dūn , croccere . For other evidence of pot-making in the old par. of Cranborne, cf. Crendell and Old Pottery Kiln in Alderholt par. supra , Potterne Fm in Verwood par. infra , and the f.n. Potten Hill infra .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Bellows Cross
- Biddlesgate Fm
- (West) Blagdon Fm, Blagdon Hill, Blagdon Hill Wd
- Boveridge, Boveridge Fm & Boveridge Ho
- Burwood
- Castle Hill, Castle Hill Lane & Castle Hill Wd
- Cranborne Priory
- High Wd
- Knap Barrow
- Horsyth
- Lt Holwell Fm & Lr Holwell Fm
- Hyde
Other OS name
- Jordan Hill (Plant.)
- Manor Ho
- Park Row
- Telegraph Ctg
- Toby's Bottom
- The Well
- Wellsnare
- White Ho (Copse)
- Withy Bed
- Woodward's Copse
- Jack's Hedge Corner
- Manor Fm
- Noddle Hill (Wd)
- Targett's Fm
- Ashes Fm
- Kennel Pond
- Mear's Pond
- Stone Hill Gate & Stone Hill Wd
- Thanes Copse
- Black Bush, Blackbush Down
- Bratch Copse
- Breach Copse
- Burwood Pit
- Chalk Pit
- Church
- Churchill Drove
- Old Claygrounds
- Corn Mill
- Cranborne Fm
- Cranborne Lodge
- Curries
- Dead Man
- East Hays
- Fir Copse
- Gilham's Copse
- Goddard's Barn
- Hare Lane Fm
- Holwell Mill
- Long Copse
- Mill Lane
- Paul's Copse
- Peaked Corner
- Peaked Plant.
- Penny's Fm
- Perry Copse
- Peters Fm
- Purbeck Lane
- Pye Lane
- Revel's Pond
- Roke Hill
- Rookery Wd
- Round Copse
- Rushmore Fm
- St Aldhelm's Church
- Salisbury Hall
- Standridge
- Tenantry Wd