Banbury Hill
Other OS name in the Parish of Okeford Fitzpaine
Historical Forms
- Banbury (Common) 1773 Bayly 1811 OS
- boscum de Ban'ber' 13 GlastR
Etymology
, Banbury (Common )1773 Bayly, 1811 OS; probably to be identified with boscum de Ban 'ber '13 GlastR ; there is an Iron Age univallate hill - fort here , v. RCHM 3206 , so the second el . is probably burh ( dat . sg . byrig ) ' fortified place ' , the first perhaps bana ' murderer ' , cf. Banbury O 412 explained as from burh with an OE pers.n. Bana .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Belchalwell Street
- Knackers Hole
- Whitmore Coppice, Whitmore Cross, Whitmore Drove
- Hibbett Bottom, Hibbett Coppice, Hibbett Lane
- Telegraph
- Angers Fm
- Belleaze Fm
- Bell Hill
- Castle Lane
- Common Gate
- Conygar Coppice
- Cookwell Brook
- The Cross
- Dirty Gate
- Earl's Fm
- Etheridge's Fm
- Frog Hole
- Garland's Fm
- Little Lane
- Malthouse Ctgs
- Okeford Cmn
- Okeford Hill
- Okeford Mill
- The Parsonage
- Pound, Pound Lane
- Rectory
- Room Fm
- Oed
- St Andrew's Church
- Smithy
- Southley Fm