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Survey of English Place-Names

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Bentover Coppice

Other OS name in the Parish of Mapperton

Historical Forms

  • Bentover (Coppice) 1837 TA

Etymology

, Bentover (Coppice )1837TA , ' bent-grass ridge or slope ' , v. beonet , ofer 2 .