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Fontmell Down

Other OS name in the Parish of Fontmell Magna

Etymology

, 1811 OS , cf. Common Downs 1837TA , referred to in the bdy clause on hamelendune north ecge ' on the north edge of the scarred or flat - topped hill ' in the Anglo - Saxon bounds of Fontmell M . ( 932 (15) ShaftR (S 419) ) , v. hamol , hamel , dūn , cf. Hambledon Hill in Ch . Okeford par . supra with which this form was wrongly identified by Fägersten 15 ( followed by Tengstrand 213 ) .