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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.

St Edward's Ctg

Other OS name in the Parish of Arne

Etymology

, so called because it is ' said to be built upon the foundations of the cottage to which the body of Edward the Martyr was taken and hidden in a well in the garden ' ( SwanageTGuide ) , v. St Edward 's Bridge in Corfe C . par . supra .