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Mountain Clump

Other OS name in the Parish of Corfe Mullen

Historical Forms

  • Mountain's Coppice 1839 TA

Etymology

, Mountain 's Coppice 1839TA , cf. Mounteynes 1695DCMCt , Hr Mountains & Lr Mountains 1839TA , perhaps a whimsical use of monteyne ' a mountain ' to describe the hillock here ( marked Mound 6″ ) , but possibly a surname .