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Survey of English Place-Names

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Humber's Coppice & Humber's Leg

Other OS name in the Parish of Bloxworth

Etymology

, cf. Richard Carpentar ' de Humbir ' , Richard Carpentar ' de Humbyr '1288Ass , Alexander Humber 1664 HTax ( Winterborne W . ) , v. leg ; the surname is derived from a p.n. ( r.n . ) Humber .