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.
Survey of English place-names
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Shamland
Shamland
Other OS name in the Parish of Abbotsham
Historical Forms
Sham(m)aland
1670
FF
1691
Recov
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) is
Sham
(
m
)
aland
1670
FF
, 1691
Recov
.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Combe Walter
Cornborough
Pusehill
Tealta
Other OS name
Bowood
Buckleigh
Claycott
Clifton
Keene
Langdon
Orchard
Rixlade
Spurland
Major Settlement
Abbotsham