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Rye Water Coppice & Rye Water Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Corscombe

Historical Forms

  • Hthr Rye Water & Lr Rye Water, Rye Water Copse & Rye Water Plant. 1838 TA

Etymology

, Hthr Rye Water & Lr Rye Water , Rye Water Copse & Rye Water Plant .1838TA , named from a stream rising in the W of the par . just SW of Rye Water Coppice and flowing E to meet another stream where Rye Water Lane crosses them ; Rye may be from a p.n . ' (place) at the well-watered land, or dry spot in marshy ground ' , from atter ' at the ' and īeg , cf. 3338 .