Fairmile
Early-attested site in the Parish of Ottery St Mary
Historical Forms
- le faire mile c.1425 Add
Etymology
The name was probably given to an especially good stretch of the main Exeter road here in the days when even these were little more than muddy tracks. Cf. Fairmile (Sr), a part of the Portsmouth road near Cobham.
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