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Survey of English Place-Names

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Breach Copse

Other OS name in the Parish of Cranborne

Historical Forms

  • Breache(s) e17 CecilMap
  • Breach Coppice & Breach Grd 1846 TA

Etymology

, Breache (s )e17CecilMap , Breach Coppice & Breach Grd 1846TA , v. brǣc ' land broken up for cultivation ' , cf. prec. which contains a form of the same word in which early shortening has taken place .