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Winyard's Gap

Other OS name in the Parish of Chedington

Historical Forms

  • Winiards Gap 1811 OS

Etymology

, Winiards Gap 1811 OS , cf. Winyards Ho , Ploughed Winyards Md 1838TA , Winiards 1840TAMap , v. gap , for the surname ( from OE  wīn-geard ' avineyard ' ) v. Reaney - Wilson 497 and cf. Winyard Mill W 53 which is a possible source for the surname . The feature referred to , where the M . Newton - S Perrott road drops from the end of a long ridge on the Chedington - Corscombe par . bdy , is to be associated with on miclan corf , on corfget in the Anglo - Saxon bounds of Corscombe q. v. infra .