Fern Down Hill & Fern Down Nursery, Ferndown
Early-attested site in the Parish of Hampreston
Historical Forms
- Fyrne 1321 FF
- Ferne 1358 ib
- Ferne 13 Cecil 1244 Ass
Etymology
Fern Down Hill & Fern Down Nursery (SU 072009), Ferndown (1″), Fyrne 1321 FF, Ferne 1358 ib, possibly from OE fergen (WSax fiergen) 'wooded hill', as suggested by Ekwall Studies2 140, cf. Verne Yeates 1220, Ferne Ho W 188, v. dūn . The forms Ferne 13Cecil , 1244Ass both (p) may also belong here. The hill is a low one in an otherwise fairly flat area between Uddens Water and R. Stour. However, as Professor Löfvenberg points out, all the forms can be derived from OE fearn 'fern' (in a collective sense 'ferny place', cf. PN Brk 290) or a derivative of it, an OE *(ge)fierne 'fern brake', and this explanation is probably to be preferred.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Belle Vue Barrow & Belle Vue Plant.
- Broadmoor Coppice
- Canford Bottom
- Canon Hill
- Captain's Row
- Clonmeen
- Dowden's Copse
- Fox Fm
- Great Barrow
- Hawtree
- High Mead Lane
- Lawn Fm
- Little Moors Fm
- Moor Ho
- The Mount
- Olivers Ho
- Park Homer
- Pilford (Fm)
- Pilgrimage
- Pinehulme
- Pompey's Corner
- Poor Cmn
- Quarry Corner
- Rabbit's Copse
- Rectory
- Red Bridge
- The Roughs
- St Mary's Church
- St Mary's R
- Chapel
- Sandy Lane
- Stapehill
- All Saints' Church
- Baroona
- Bartlett's Cliff
- Beaufoys (Ave)
- Bedborough Fm & Bedborough Plant.
- Blunt's Fm
- Butler's Coppice
- Cliveden
- Crow Copse
- Fox and Hounds Inn
- Gravel Pits
- Hamwoods Copse
- Heather Edge
- Laurel Ctgs
- Lewer's Copse
- Middle Hill Ho & Middle Hill Rd
- Well Ho
- Angel Inn
- The Birches
- Big Burles & Lt Burles, Burrell's Copse
- Clayford Ave & Clayford Rd
- Corleone
- Fir Ctg
- Glynville
- Hampreston Lane
- Heath Fm
- King's Arms Inn
- Leigh Ho
- Manor Ho
- Stour Bank
- Tom's Coppice
- Whin Croft
- White Bridge
- Winkley Ctg
- Wolverton
- Woolslope Coppice
- Ameysford (Rd)
- Big Copse
- The Bog
- Church Moor Copse
- Coneygar Lane
- Faulkland Lodge
- Fryer's Copse
- Green Worlds
- Hayes Lane
- Holmwood (Park)
- Laymoor Copse & Laymoor Lane
- Manor Fm (Ho)
- The Warren