English Place-name Society

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.

Twelve Acre Copse

Early-attested site in the Parish of Wardour

Etymology

Twelve Acre Copse (6″). Cf. be twelf Aceron 984 (14th) KCD 641, a strange survival of an ancient area of land.