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Landchard Lane

Other OS name in the Parish of Shillingstone

Historical Forms

  • Hansheir Lane 1618 CH

Etymology

, Hansheir Lane 1618CH ( for Lansheir Lane ) , cf. Lanchard 1838TA ( the name of two fields on the par . bdy ) , v. land-sc(e)aru ' boundary ' , perhaps to be associated with Rivulum qui vocatur Landsore c.1270AddCh which is from the related and synonymous land-scoru .