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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Ridge Cross
Ridge Cross
Other OS name in the Parish of Holne
Historical Forms
Byridge
1629
DA
Etymology
( 6 ″ ) is
Byridge
1629DA 31 . ' By the ridge . '
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Combestone
Gallant Le Bower
Stoke
Other OS name
Benjie Tor
Holne Moor
Langaford
Littlecombe
Michelcombe
Shuttaford
Staddicombe
Steart
Stoodley
Wotton
Major Settlement
Holne