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Survey of English Place-Names

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Boozy Pasture

Field in the Parish of Pontesbury

Historical Forms

  • 1842 TA

Etymology

Boozy Pasture(a Sa term for land onwhich an outgoing tenant was allowed to pasture animals for an additionalperiod, ultimately OE  bōsig'cow-stall')