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Survey of English Place-Names

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Race Fm

Other OS name in the Parish of Kingston Bagpuize

Historical Forms

  • The Race 1844 TA, W

Etymology

, The Race 1844TA , W . J . Arkell ( Oxoniensia vii ) explains this as dial . race ' small concretionary calcareous nodules ' and says that owing to an outcrop of pisolite in the Corallian beds , the arable fields are smothered with pea - sized white pellets .