Three Legged Cross
Other OS name in the Parish of Verwood
Historical Forms
- Three Legged Crosse 1591 DLMB
Etymology
, 1811 OS , Three Legged Crosse 1591DLMB , perhaps a term for a T - junction , v. cross , but Three Legged may be an allusion to the gallows , nicknamed Three legged mare ( NED from 1685 ) . Cf . ' The name is … from a tripod surmounted by a wooden cross that was a direction beacon … to persons crossing the heaths ' ( TGuide ) .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- All Saints' Church
- Bailey's Plant
- Baker's Fm
- Black Hill
- Black Moor
- Boveridge Heath
- Bugden's Copse
- Burrows Copse, Burrows Fm & Burrows Lane
- Church
- Church Hill
- Claylake (Copse)
- Crab Orchd
- Dewlands Cmn, Dewlands Hill & Dewlands Wds
- Eastworth Fm
- Foster's Wd
- Halfway Hill(lost)
- Hayward's Fm
- Heathy How
- Ladies' Copse
- Lr Common
- Manor Ho
- Margards Lane
- Middle Copse
- Mount Ararat
- New Town
- Noon Hill
- Owre Cmn
- Potterne Hill & Potterne Wd
- Rushmoor Pond
- St Michael's Ctg
- Sandy Lane
- Stephen's Castle (Tumulus)
- Verwood Cmn
- Verwood Fm
- Verwood Manor Fm
- Wild Church Bottom
- Withy Bed
- Wools Bridge