Spittles Lane The Spittles
Other OS name in the Parish of Lyme Regis
Historical Forms
- Spitals (or Kill Devil) 1842 TA
Etymology
, named from , Spitals (or Kill Devil )1842TA , an area of eroded undercliff below Timber Hill infra and ' Spring' (6″) , possibly land once belonging to the lost Hospital of St Mary and the Holy Spirit supra , from ME spitel ' hospital ' ; alternatively perhaps a derogatory name from eModE spittle ' saliva ' , applied figuratively to damp and slimy ground , a notion reinforced by its alternative nickname Kill Devil .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Alder Grove
- Bell Cliff
- Belmont
- Black Covert
- Boat Close
- Broad Ledge
- Buddel
- Buddle Bridge
- Canary Ledges
- Chippel Bay
- Church Cliffs
- Cliff Ho
- Cobb Gate Beach & Cobb Gate Jetty
- Cockpits
- Cumberland Ctg
- Devonshire Head
- Dragon's Hill
- Fairfield
- Front Beach
- The Grove
- Gun Cliff
- Hatchet
- Hay Holes
- High Cliff
- Higher Mill
- Holme Cleve & Holme Craig, Holmlea Ho
- Horn Bridge
- Jericho
- Jordan
- Kersbrook Ctg
- Ladder's Coppice
- Landford
- Langmoor Gdns
- Leper's Well
- Little Cliff
- Long Ledge
- Lucy's Jetty & Lucy's Ledge
- Lyme Hill
- Middle Mill Fm
- Mill Race
- Morgan's Grave
- Newfoundland
- North Wall
- Overton
- Penard
- Pit Coppice
- Poker's Pool
- Pond Coppice
- Portland Lodge
- Priest's Chamber & Priest's Chapel
- Rhode Barton
- Shire Lane
- Slaughter Ho
- Sleech Wd
- Slopes Fm
- Southernhaye
- Summer Hill Ho
- Timber Hill
- Twenty Acre Coppice
- Upper Knapps Fm
- Victoria Pier
- Virtlerock
- Lower Ware
- Westcliff