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Survey of English Place-Names

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Gt Rhymes Copse & Lt Rhymes Copse

Other OS name in the Parish of Edmondsham

Historical Forms

  • Rimes Copse, Lt Rimes (Copse) 1838 TA

Etymology

, Rimes Copse , Lt Rimes (Copse )1838TA , on the par . bdy , so perhaps from rima ' border ' , cf. PN Brk 377 .