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Survey of English Place-Names

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Treisborn

Field in the Parish of Shaftesbury

Historical Forms

  • Treisborn 1358 Shaft

Etymology

Treisborn 1358(c.1407)(-born perhaps for -bern,v. bere-ærn'barn', cf. Walter Tray 1388)

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement