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Survey of English Place-Names

A county-by-county guide to the linguistic origins of England’s place-names – a project of the English Place-Name Society, founded 1923.

Shooter's Green

Early-attested site in the Parish of Abbot's and King's Ripton

Historical Forms

  • Sheteres dole 1297 Ct

Etymology

'Shooter's share of the common field' (v. dal ), Shooter being here presumably used as a pers. name. ME  shetere here, as in Standard Eng, has been replaced by shooter , under the influence of the verb shoot .

Places in the same Parish

Major Settlement