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Survey of English Place-Names

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Great Boarts Inclosures & Little Boarts Inclosures, Bourts Well

Other OS name in the Parish of West Dean

Historical Forms

  • the great Boart 1669 Comm
  • Greate Bourt(e), Little Bourt(e) 1692 ib
  • the Burts 1830 M

Etymology

, the great Boart 1669Comm , Greate Bourt (e ), Little Bourt (e )1692 ib, the Burts 1830 M , an obscure name , unless it is contracted as a surname from the first el . of Bowyardmede ( 232 infra ) .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement