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Survey of English Place-Names

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Bathe Barton

Early-attested site in the Parish of North Tawton

Historical Forms

  • Ba 1281 Ass
  • Bathe 1333 SR
  • Bath 1635 FF

Etymology

This must be the OE  bæþ , 'bath,' cf. Bampton infra 530.There is a Bathe Pool close at hand. Polwhele (19) mentions it in 1790 as 'Bath Pool' in a pit in a field, 8 feet deep.

Places in the same Parish