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Prince's Bridge

Other OS name in the Parish of Dorchester St Peter & All Saints

Etymology

, cf . 'the prince 's wood '1364 BPR , Prynce Wood , Prince Woode vel le Princes East Wood 1615DuCo , The Princes river 1617Add ( probably R . Frome ) , Prince of WalesRd supra , all in allusion to the possession of the manor of Fordington by the Prince of Wales . The reference to pontem borialem iuxta molend ' predict ' [le Estmyll ]1549Ct may also belong here , v. Mill(Fordington) supra .