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Survey of English Place-Names

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Pursefield, Pursefield Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Prestbury

Historical Forms

  • Purse Fields Plantation 1848 TA

Etymology

, Purse Fields Plantation 1848TA , cf. le Purs 1347Eyre , from OE , ME  purs ' a purse ' , probably a place with only one extrance or exit .

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Places in the same Parish

Other OS name

Early-attested site