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Survey of English Place-Names

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Bushrubs Wood

Other OS name in the Parish of Apethorpe

Historical Forms

  • Buchscrub c.1220 For

Etymology

( 6 ″ ) is Buchscrub c. 1220For , Bushrobs 1614, Bush Shrubs 1642 Woods Rept , a compound of ' bush ' and ' shrub . '

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement