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Yearlings' Bottom, Yearlings' Drove

Other OS name in the Parish of Bere Regis

Etymology

, perhaps ' strips used for ploughing ' , from ere- and land , cf. Yarlands in Chickerell par . supra , but alternatively from ModE  yearling ' animal in its second year ' , with botm , drove .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement