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Queen Oak

Other OS name in the Parish of Bourton

Historical Forms

  • Queene Oake Close 1609 LRMB
  • Queen Oak Ho 1839 TA

Etymology

, Queene Oake Close 1609LRMB , Queen Oak Ho 1839TA , v. cwēn , āc , no doubt named from one of the Queens of England who at different dates possessed the manor of Gillingham , v. Hutch3 3616 , cf. Thorngrove in Gillingham par . infra ; there is another Queen 's Oak named in the 16th cent. bounds of Gillingham Forest , v. Motcombe f. ns . infra .