Stair Hole
Other OS name in the Parish of West Lulworth
Historical Forms
- Starhole 1279 Ch
Etymology
, 1882 Robinson , Starhole 1279 Ch , possibly ' steeply sided hole ' , v. stǣger 2 , hol 1 , which would admirably describe this feature ( Chatwin 95 , plate VIA ) , though the 13th cent , form suggests rather stær ' a starling ' ; above Stair Hole is Stair Head ( Short 64 ) , v. hēafod .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Bacon Bluff, Bacon Hole
- Ball Stone
- Belhuish Coppice
- Black Rock
- Black Rocks
- The Blind Cow
- Brittwell Ho
- Church Rock
- Dyke
- The Man o' War
- Newlands Fm, Newlands Warren
- Pinion Rock
- Potter's Hole
- Red Hole
- St Oswald's Bay
- Scratchy Bottom
- Sea Horse
- Smugglers' Cave
- West Down Fm
- (Lt) Burngate Wd
- Durdle Door
- East Over
- East Point
- Fossil Forest
- Old Gravel Pit
- The Hammer
- Holy Trinity Church
- Little Beach
- Look-Out
- Lulworth Common
- Lulworth Cove
- Lulworth Fm
- Mupe Bay, Mupe Ledge, Mupe Rocks
- Oswald Ctg
- The Bull
- Coastguard Station
- East Bottom
- Man o' War Cove
- Norman Rock
- Christmas Rock
- Daggers Gate
- Dungy Beach, Dungy Head
- Mackerel Rock
- Marm Tout
- Mount Poynings
- Old Quarr
- West Point
- White Nose Hill(lost)