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Survey of English Place-Names

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Comprehension Coppice

Other OS name in the Parish of Halstock

Historical Forms

  • Comprehension 1799 ERO

Etymology

, 1842TA , Comprehension 1799ERO , from the abstract noun comprehension , no doubt one of the large series of arbitrary and commemorative names in this par . bestowed by Thomas Hollis in the 18th cent. ( v. note under f. ns . infra ) .