St Austin's Well
Other OS name in the Parish of Cerne Abbas
Historical Forms
- a spring, which still retains the name of Augustine's Well' 1774 Hutch1
- 'the pure fountain of St Augustine' 1815 Hutch3
Etymology
, ' a spring , which still retains the name of Augustine 's Well '1774Hutch1, 'the pure fountain of St Augustine '1815 Hutch3 , so named from the legend that St Augustine founded the abbey here , v. discussion of the popular etymology of the par . name supra . The same spring is described as ' a spring called Silver Well , which St Austin formerly produced at Cerne ' in an account of another legend in which an East Anglian prince Eadwald becomes a hermit here c. 870 ( in 1535–43 Leland , retold in Hutch 3 4 18 ) .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Alton Road Ctgs
- Blackwater(lost)
- Higher Hill Bottom
- St Catherine's Chapel
- Weam Common Hill, Weam Coppice
- Barnwells
- Bramble Bottom (Plant)
- Hill Plant.
- Kettle Bridge
- Large Bar Barn & Large Bar Hill
- Little Wd
- The Lodge
- The Manse
- Mill
- Mill Race
- New Barn
- North Eweleaze
- Oakham Close
- The Old Bell
- Oxencombe Bottom
- Pain's Bridge(lost)
- Park Mead Bottom
- Piddle Lane & Piddle Wd
- Pound Bottom & Pound Ho, Pound Fm (Kelly)
- Robin Wood
- Rowdenfoot Coppice, Rowden Hill
- St Mary's Church
- Smacam Down
- Southcombe Plant.
- South Hanging
- Three Hedges
- Tithe Barn
- Tucking Mill
- Well Coppice
- West Hanging
- Yelcombe Bottom & Yelcombe Drove
- Abbey Fm
- Barton Fm & Barton Lodge, Lr Barton Fm (Kelly)
- Hayesend Drove
- Incombe Plant.
- Vicarage
- Abbey Ho
- Black Hill (Barn), Blackhill Fm (Kelly)
- Brick Kiln Drove
- Brook Ctg
- Buck Hill
- Cerne Ewe-Leaze
- Cerne Park
- Chescombe Drove
- Cross
- Dickley Hill
- Eastfield Drove
- Francombe Bottom & Francombe Fm
- The Gables
- Gate House
- Giant Head Fm
- Giant Hill
- Glove Premises
- Great Wd
- Green Hill
- Hail Wd
- Hare Coppice
- Holly Bank Fm
- St Catherine's Fm