English Place-name Society

Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Bourne Drove, Bourne Hill Plant.

Other OS name in the Parish of Piddlehinton

Historical Forms

  • quendam Droue 1270 ChrP 1372
  • Bourn Hill 1839 TA(Puddletown)

Etymology

( quendam Droue 1270 (1372) ChrP , in bounds of Puddletown par . infra , v. drove ) ( Bourn Hill 1839TA (Puddletown) ) , from Bourne Fm supra .