Creech Barrow
Other OS name in the Parish of Church Knowle
Historical Forms
- Crechbarrow 1610 Speed
Etymology
, 1774Hutch1 , 1811 OS , Crechbarrow 1610 Speed , cf. magnum montem 14 Mansel , a ' remarkable conical hill … resembling in form a volcanic mountain in miniature ' ( Hutch3 1606 ) , 637 ′ high and giving its name to East Creech q. v. supra , Creech Bottom, etc. infra , v. beorg ' hill, tumulus ' ( a tumulus is marked 6 ″ ) ; in 1774 (Hutch1 1206) the ruins were still visible on its summit of ' the principal lodge of the isleand forest of Purbeck ' , referred to as Crechbar (r )ow Lodge 1575Saxton, c. 1586 Tres , The Lodge 1610 Speed , v. loge , cf. Isle of Purbeck supra .
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
- Bradle Barn, Bradle Fm
- Cocknowle
- Barnston Cross Rds, Barnston Fm
- East Creech
- (West) Bucknowle Ho
- East Orchard, West Orchard (Fm)
- Whiteway Fm
Other OS name
- Dodson's Fm
- Gerald's Plant.
- Hop Yard
- Killwood, Killwood Coppices
- Lillyhays Coppice
- Furlong's Coppice
- Grange Rd
- Horseground Coppice
- Knowle Fm
- Old Limekiln
- Furzebrook
- The Gwyle
- Icen Barrow
- Knowle Hill
- (Yellow) Withy Bed
- Bare Cross
- Blackhills Plant.
- Blue Pool
- Chaldecot's Wd
- Church Fm
- Clay Pit
- Cotness, Cotness Wd
- Creech Bottom, Creech Heath, Creech Wood
- East Creech Fm
- Furzebrook Ho, Furzebrook Rd
- Higher Down(lost)
- John's Plant.
- Knowle Lodge
- Madgrove
- Newfoundland
- New Ho
- New Inn
- Nora's Plant.
- Nursery
- Orchard Hill Fm
- Polar Wd
- Puddle Mill, Puddle Mill Fm
- Rachel's Plant.
- Randalltown
- Richard's Fm
- Ridgeway Hill
- St Peter's Church
- Shotts Lane
- Snugg's Fm
- Stonehill Down
- Thornham
- Wadhill Coppice
- Whiteway Withy Bed
- Woodhill Coppice
- Woolland Grove