Box
Major Settlement in the Parish of Box
Historical Forms
- Boczam 1144 AC
- la Boxe, Boxa 1181 P late12th BM 1242 Fees 1259 Ipm
- la Bosse 1216 ClR
- Boxe juxta Ferlege 1226 SarumCh
- la Box 1340,1367 Cl
- Box 1435 ib
Etymology
This is OE box , 'box-tree,' cf. Box in Awre (Gl), la Boxe 1221Ass , and in Minchinhampton (ib.), la Box 1307 Custumal, and Box Hill (PN Sr 270). Box is not common here now, but “in all probability it took its name from the Box-trees which grew there naturally, but now worne-out” (Aubrey NH 55). Ferlege is Monkton Farleigh infra 120.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Ashley
- Barn Ho
- Ben Mead
- Blue Vein
- Botleaze Wood
- Box Field
- Chapel Barn
- Charlwood
- Ennox Wood
- Folly Fm
- Grove Ho
- Hungerford Bottom
- Inghalls Cottage
- Kingsdown
- Kingsmoor
- Littlefield
- Longlease Cottages
- Middlehill
- Mill Ho
- Old Pits
- Quarry Hill
- Roadhill Wood
- Round Wood
- Stowell Wood
- Totney Firs
- Tyning Cottages
- Washwells
- Weavern Cottages
- Whitewood
- Woodlands