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Survey of English Place-Names

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Chesil Pitts

Field in the Parish of Clifton Hampden

Historical Forms

  • c.1425 Frid

Etymology

Chesil Pitts(first element ceosel,'gravel,' which occurs alsoin Dorchester and Chislehampton near here)

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement