Ledgemore Bottom & Ledgemore Pond
Early-attested site in the Parish of Horsley
Historical Forms
- Loddesmore 1327 Madox 1327 SR
- Luddesmore 1411 MinAcct 1498 ADii
- Ludsmore 1617 GR547a
- Ledgemoore 1715 GR547a
Etymology
'Lud's marshland', v. mōr . The first el. is the OE pers.n. Lud (d ), a strong form of the OE Luda proposed for Ludworth (Db 143); a pers.n. of similar form may occur in ludescumbe 955–9 BCS 936 (in Olveston iii, 123infra ). On the assimilation to Ledge - cf. Phonol. § 44 (b ).
Places in the same Parish
Other OS name
- Downend
- Harvey's Grave
- Park Wood
- Bedlam
- Boscombe Ho
- Chambers Grove
- Hartley's Bridge
- Newnham
- The Priory
- Ragged Barn
- Rockness Fm
- Sandgrove
- Sealey Wood
- Short Wood
- Sleight Wood
- Sugley Fm
- Tickmorend
- Tiltups End
- The Tump
- Twatley
- Wallow Green
- Washpool
- Wood Leaze
- Wormwood Hill
- Fooks
- Hazlecote Lane
- Hollingham
- Horsleyfield & Horsleyfield Wood
- Kilcombe
- Laggers Covert
- Lophorn
- Lutheridge Fm
- Lutsome Cottage
- Miry Brook
- The Peaked Stone
- Enoch's Barn
- The Nelms