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Survey of English Place-Names

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Kitwhistle Gorse

Other OS name in the Parish of Beaminster

Historical Forms

  • Kit Whistle, Gt Kitwhistle, Lt Kitwhistle & Long Kitwhistle 1842 TA

Etymology

, Kit Whistle , Gt Kitwhistle , Lt Kitwhistle & Long Kitwhistle 1842TA , cf. Kittwhistle in Broadwindsor par . infra and other examples of this curious name in Sydling St N . par . supra and Corfe M . par . 2 19 .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement