Kingstag, Kings Stagg Copse
Early-attested site in the Parish of Lydlinch
Historical Forms
- Kyngeslake c.1325 GlastE
- Kingestake 1337 DorR
Etymology
Kingstag, Kings Stagg Copse (ST 725106), Kyngeslake (for Kyngestake ) c.1325GlastE , Kingestake 1337 DorR, 'king's boundary stake', v. cyning , staca . The first form is a point in the 14th cent. bounds of Buckland Newton Hundred; moreover, as pointed out by Fägersten 207, the par. boundaries of Lydlinch, Pulham and Haselbury Bryan meet at Kingstag Bridge here (in Pulham par. q. v. supra ), and the boundary stake must be that referred to in the medieval bounds of Blackmoor Forest (Hy 3 (14) Cerne) as ad truncum qui stat in tribus divisis . For the association of this place, through folk etymology, with the legend of the white hart, v. Blackmoor Forest & Blackmoor Vale supra .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Blakelond
- Blackrow Cmn, Blackrow Fm
- Haydon (Fm)
- Holebrook Fm, Holebrook Green, Holebrook Water
- Hydes
- Plumber Fm, Plumber Manor
- Ramsbury
- (Lt) Rodmore Fm, (Lt) Rodmore Plant.
- Stock Gaylard Ho, Stock Gaylard Park
- Stroud Fm
- Twofords Bridge
Other OS name
- The Belt
- Berry Fm
- Bishop's Belt
- Blackmore Fm
- Blackmore Vale Dairy
- Blackrow Lane
- Brake Plant.
- Brickles Wd
- Buffet's Wd
- Church Ground Belt
- Coombe Fm
- Cox's Water
- Dairy Ho
- Fish Pond
- Goddard's Fm
- Gorse Triangle
- Green Copse
- Green Man (P.H.)
- Haydon Lane
- Hollow Hill Plant.
- Home Fm, Home Plant.
- Hydes Plant.
- Little Mill
- Lower Plant.
- Lydlinch Cmn
- Malthouse Ctgs
- Manor Fm
- Matravers
- Middle Plant.
- New Gorse
- New House Fm
- Prower's Fm
- Rickett's Wd
- Ridge Fm
- Rooksmoor Copse
- St Thomas
- Salkeld Bridge
- Sawpit Plant.
- Shelleys
- Shelves Plant.
- Stepping Stone Bridge
- Stock Wd
- Three Boars Heads Inn
- Treviss Copse
- Withybed Plant.