Besbury Fm
Early-attested site in the Parish of Minchinhampton
Historical Forms
- Bessebour', Besseburylond Ric2 Rent
- Bestberry 1830 M
Etymology
Besbury Fm, Bessebour ', Besseburylond Ric 2Rent , Bestberry 1830 M.The first el. is possibly a pers.n. OE B (e )assa or Be (o )ssa . No such name is known but it could be a hypocoristic form of some OE dithematic name such as Beadusige , *Bēdsige , etc. or indeed a mutated variant of the recorded Bass (a ) (Redin 26, 84). Such a pers.n. is thought to occur in Besley (D 535) and possibly in Besley (Db 73), though the latter may contain ON Bessi . But it is also possible that the p.n. is from an OE be ēastan byrig '(land) to the east of the fortification' (v. be , ēastan , burh ); Besbury Fm lies half a mile east of Burleigh and The Bulwarks (infra ), which would be the burh referred to. Cf. Beastbrook (46supra ).
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Amberley
- Aston Down
- Box
- Burleigh
- Bury Moor
- Cowcombe Hill & Cowcombe Wood
- Forwood
- Gatcombe
- Hyde
- Longfords Ho
- St Chloe
- Trullwell
Other OS name
- Ball's Green
- Beechknapp
- Black Ditch
- Bubblewell
- The Bulwarks
- Burleigh Court
- Burnt Ash
- Camp Field
- Christow
- Claycombe
- The Close
- Crackstone
- Culver Ho
- Deanley
- The Devil's Churchyard & THe Devil's Elbow
- Dunkerspool
- Field Ho
- The Folly
- Frogmarsh
- Gatcombe Park & Gatcombe Wood
- Gillhays Copse
- Golden Valley
- Gydynap Lane
- Hampton Fields
- Heath Ho
- Highcroft
- Hollybush Fm
- Jacob's Knowle
- The Knap
- Knave-in-Hole
- The Knoll
- The Lammas
- Littleworth
- The Long Stone
- Marley Lane
- New Barn
- Peaches Fm
- Pennyhill Wood
- Quarry Hill
- Ragged Cot
- Scarhill Lane
- Spriggs Well
- Theescombe
- Wall's Quarry
- Well Hill Grove
- Wimberley Mill
- Whitfield's Tump
- Woefuldane Bottom & Woefuldane Fm
- Wood Ho