Gorewood, Gore Wood
Early-attested site in the Parish of Minterne Magna
Historical Forms
- bosco de la Gore 1258 For
- gorewodde 1550 PlR
- 'wood called Gorewood' 1576 Hutch3
- Gorewoode 1615 DuCo
- Gore Wood 1811 OS
Etymology
Gorewood (6″), Gore Wood (ST 660066), bosco de la Gore 1258For , gorewodde 1550PlR , 'wood called Gorewood '1576 Hutch3, Gorewoode 1615DuCo , Gore Wood 1811 OS, 'wood in the triangular piece of ground', from gāra and wudu . The triangular shape of this area of woodland between Prince's Wood in Hermitage par. supra and Grange Woods in this par. infra can still be clearly seen on the maps. Gorewood was until 1933 a small civil par. (v. note under par. heading supra ).
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Dogbury, Dogbury Gate, Dogbury Hill & Dogbury Plant., Hr Dogbury Down
- Hartley Fm
- Middlemarsh
- Rood Hill
- High Stoy
- Tiley
Other OS name
- Alleymoor Wd
- Black Hole
- Black Wd
- Bridge Wd
- Bridle's Fm
- Bright's Barn
- Cadford Wd
- Hr Caines' Coppice & Lr Caines' Coppice
- Castle Hill Fm
- Common Wd
- Coneygar Wd
- Dungeon Hill
- Dunsley Plant.
- Farm Hill
- Farthing Gate
- (Lr) Grange Fm, Grange Woods
- Greenfields
- Green Lane
- Hardy's Copse
- Higher Common
- Higher Fm
- Highfield Plant., Highfields Fm, Highfields Wd
- Home Fm
- Hurdley Moor Fm, Hurdley Wd, Westmoor Hurdley
- Kents Plant.
- Lady Abingdon's Well
- Lane Cottages
- Lode Wd
- Lyon's Gate (Fm)
- Lyon's Wd
- Manor Fm
- Middlemarsh Common, Middlemarsh Grange
- Minterne Ho
- Minterne Park
- Minterne Seat Coppice
- Moor Plant.
- Mount Sylva
- Oxleaze Wd
- Penn Wd
- Pitty's Coppice
- Porthill Plant.
- Prince's Lane
- Rectory
- Remedy Coppice
- St Andrew's Church
- Sandy Lane
- The Shrubbery
- Strawberry Wd
- Hr West Wd & Lr West Wd
- White Horse Fm & White Horse P.H.