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Hill Close Coppice

Other OS name in the Parish of Corscombe

Historical Forms

  • Hill Close Copse 1838 TA

Etymology

, Hill Close Copse 1838TA , cf. Hill Close (or Beeres croft ), Hill Close Arrable , Hill Mead 1684ERO , Hr Hill Close & Lr Hill Close 1838TA , at 700 ′ on Corscombe Down , v. hyll ; for the surname Beere , cf. Beare Close in Halstock par . supra .