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Decoy Pond

Other OS name in the Parish of Abbotsbury

Historical Forms

  • Decoy (Ho) 1811 OS

Etymology

, named from Decoy (Ho )1811 OS , described as ' a large decoy , well covered with wood , where great plenty of wild fowl resort and are taken ' in 1774 Hutch1 1538 .