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Survey of English Place-Names

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Five Marys

Other OS name in the Parish of Chaldon Herring

Historical Forms

  • Five Mary Barrows 1774 Hutch1
  • Five Mary's Grd 1865 Weld1
  • Five Meers 1765 Taylor 1811 OS

Etymology

, Five Mary Barrows 1774 Hutch1, Five Mary 's Grd 1865Weld 1, Five Meers 1765 Taylor, 1811 OS , a line of tumuli lying along an old track on the crest of a 300 ′ ridge , perhaps an old bdy between West Fossil supra and Chaldon Herring , and so possibly containing (ge)mǣre ' boundary ' as suggested in Hutch1 1124 .