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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.

Shothole

Other OS name in the Parish of Bryanston

Etymology

, near Old Park supra and Old Warren Plant . infra , cf. ModE  shot-hole ' a small hole in a fortified wallthrough which to shoot ' ( NED s.v. sense 2 ) , perhaps used of a hunting station from which game could be shot .