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Survey of English Place-Names

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Gipsies' Pit

Other OS name in the Parish of Edmondsham

Historical Forms

  • Gipsies Pit Fd 1846 TA(Cranborne)

Etymology

, Gipsies Pit Fd 1846TA (Cranborne) , cf. Sibyl atte Putte 1332 SR , v. pytt ' a pit ' , atte , cf. Mutton Holeinfra .