Cull-Peppers Dish
Other OS name in the Parish of Affpuddle
Historical Forms
- Hurle-Pepper, or Cull-Pepper's Dish 1774 Hutch1
- Culpeppers Ditch 1811 OS
Etymology
, Hurle -Pepper , or Cull -Pepper 's Dish 1774 Hutch1, Culpeppers Ditch 1811OS , the largest of a number of round shallow depressions in the heath caused by faults in the tertiary strata , from the surname Culpepper and ModE dish ' shallow vessel ' used in a figurative sense ; other depressions are known as Culpepper 's Spoon and the Devil 's or Hell 's Pit ( Hutchings 90 ) . If the hollows were notable for herbs , the allusions are perhaps to Nicholas Culpeper , author of the popular English Physician Enlarged or the Herbal , 1653 .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Affpuddle Heath
- Affpuddle Mill
- Boswell's Mount
- Bound Stone Plant.
- Brook Barn
- Bryants Puddle Fm, Bryants Puddle Heath
- Old Chalk Pit
- Dead Woman's Stone
- Double Barrow
- East Fm
- Gate Barn
- Gravel Pits
- Hill
- The Hollow
- Landshare Coppice
- North Barn
- Oakers Wood, Oakers Wood Ctg, Oakers Wood Ho
- Pallington Clump, Pallington Coppice, Pallington Fm, Pallington Heath
- Rimsmoor Pond
- Roger's Hill, Roger's Hill Ctgs, Roger's Hill Fm
- St Lawrence's Church
- Sares Wd
- Smokeham Bottom
- Spring Coppices
- Spyway (Ctg)
- Squibbs Bottom
- Starmoor Plant.
- Symmonds' Fm
- Throop Clump, Throop Heath
- Two Gates
- Vicarage
- Waddock Copse, Waddock Cross, Waddock Drove, Waddock Fm
- Well Ho
- West Fm
- Wilcocks' Wd
- Wood Barn