Rushmore
Early-attested site in the Parish of Berwick St John
Historical Forms
- Rossemere 1263 WIpm 1289 Ass 1292 AddCh 1310 Pat
- Rushemere 1570 PembSurv
- Rushmore 1618 WMxxii
Etymology
Rushmore is Rossemere 1263 WIpm, 1289Ass , 1292AddCh , 1310 Pat, Rosmere 1279, Rysshemere 1321Ass (all p), Rushemere 1570 PembSurv, Rushmore 1618 WM xxii. There can be little doubt that this is 'rush-mere.' The early forms are doubtless from rosshe , a variant ME form not hitherto noted before the 15th century.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Arundell Coppice
- Ashcombe Fm
- Barrow Hill
- Berwick Down
- Blind Well
- Cartway Copse
- Chettles Clift
- Great Cokers
- Little Cokers
- Coombe
- Costard's Bushes
- Pleck
- Cuttice Down
- Frying Pan
- Glover's Coppice
- Gravelly Way
- Hanging Ridge
- Hewetts Coppice
- Horse Hill
- Ingram's Coppice
- Ivers Wood
- Lodge Copse
- Long Croft
- Miles Chair
- Pound Coppice
- Rotherley Down
- Shiftway Copse
- Staple Foot
- Uddens Coppice
- Upton Fm
- Win Green
- Woodlands