Fortuneswell
Early-attested site in the Parish of Portland
Historical Forms
- Fortuneswell 1795 Boswell
- Fortunes Well 1608 LRMB
Etymology
Fortuneswell (SY 686735), Fortuneswell 1795 Boswell, Fortunes Well 1608LRMB , probably 'lucky well or spring', or 'well or spring in which fortunes could be told', from ModE fortune and wella , cf. Fritwell O 211 and Elwell in Upwey par. infra for names of similar meaning; in 1608LRMB it was described as 'a place to pen in cattle'.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Chesil Beach
- Grove
- Wakeham
- Church Hope, Ope
- Reforne
- Weston
- Easton
- Southwell
- Chesil, Chiswell (Kelly)
- Verne Yeates
Other OS name
- Alma Ctgs
- Balaclava Bay
- Bill of Portland
- Bill Quarries
- Blacknor
- Blow Hole
- Boat Haul
- Bottom Coombe Quarries
- Bowers Quarries
- Breston Quarries
- Broadcroft Quarries
- Butts Quarries
- Castletown
- Cave Hole
- Chalklands Quarries
- Chesil Cove
- Clay Hope, Ope
- Coombefield Quarries
- Cottonfields Quarries
- The Mere
- Old Hill
- Park Quarries
- Penns Bath, Penns Weare
- Pennsylvania Castle
- Perryfield
- Pier
- Portland Breakwater
- Portland Castle
- Portland Nore
- Portland Tramway
- Priory
- Pulpit Rock
- Quarry Head
- Rufus Castle
- Sand Holes
- Saw Mill Tavern
- Shambles(lost)
- Sheat Quarries
- Shepherds' Dinner Quarry
- Southwell Landslip
- Sweet Hill
- Tar Rocks
- Tophill or Uphill
- Tout Quarries
- Trade Quarries
- Underhill
- Victoria Bldgs, Victoria Gdns
- Wallsend Cove
- Wakeham Quarries
- Waycroft Quarries
- Weston Quarries
- Windmill (disused)
- Crown Fm
- Mutton Cove
- Silklake Quarries
- Admiralty Quarries(lost)
- Culver Well
- Nicodemus Knob
- Smallmouth Sand
- E Weare, W Weare
- White Hole
- Withies Croft Quarries
- Cove Ctgs
- Duncecroft Quarries
- Durdle Pier
- Easton Lane
- Fancy Beach
- Folly Pier
- France Quarries
- Freshwater Bay, Freshwater Quarries
- God Nore
- Grove Cliff, Grove Inn
- Hr Headlands Quarry
- Independent Quarries
- Inmosthay Quarries
- King Barrow Quarries
- King's Pier (Hollow)
- Land Mark
- Suckthumb Quarry
- West Cliff
- Quarries
- Limekiln Cave
- Lloyd's Ctg
- Long Acre Quarries
- Longstone Ope Quarries
- Look Out
- E Ship Channel, N Ship Channel, S Ship Channel
- Stone Inn
- West Bay
- Wide Street