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Survey of English Place-Names

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Picton Gorse

Other OS name in the Parish of Plemstall

Historical Forms

  • Picton Gorse 1831 Bry

Etymology

, a farm named from a fox - covert Picton Gorse 1831 Bry , v. gorst .