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Freshwater Steps

Other OS name in the Parish of Corfe Castle

Etymology

, 1861Hutch3 , cf. Freshwater 1811 OS , Fresh Water 1844TA , from a stream and waterfall marked 6 ″ , v. fersc , wæter , cf. Freshwater Bay in Portland par . infra . Freshwater (Bay) Wt 122 , with the term step used no doubt in its geological sense of ' a fault or dislocation ofstrata ' .

Places in the same Parish

Early-attested site

Other OS name

Major Settlement