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Survey of English Place-Names

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Fontmell Wd

Other OS name in the Parish of Fontmell Magna

Historical Forms

  • Fontmell Woods 1837 TA

Etymology

, Fontmell Woods 1837TA , referred to in the bdy clause to wde ' to thewood ' in the Anglo - Saxon bounds of Fontmell M . ( 932 (15)ShaftR (S 419) ) , v. wudu .